US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 17 for "Flexible synchronization of time-of-day components" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,357, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Flexible synchronization of time-of-day components" was invented by Frank Haverkamp (Tuebingen, Germany), Thilo Maurer (Nufringen, Germany), Markus Buehler (Schoenbuch, Germany), Michael Klaus Kroener (Ehningen, Germany), Timothy Lindquist (Rochester, Minn.), Tristan Muller (Tubingen, Germany) and Todd A. Greenfield (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synchronizing time-of-day (TOD) between TOD components includes issuing an order for a plurality of TOD components, each including a local time, an offset, and an effective time a...