ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,593, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Karma Automotive Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Synchronization of zonal controllers using ultra wideband radios" was invented by Tony M. Fardanesh (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a corresponding synchronization packet captured by a receiving UWB radio associated with a zonal controller of a vehicle. The synchronization packet includes a respective reference timestamp that includes a time of a master clock when a transmitting UWB radio transmitted the corresponding synchronization packet. The method also includes determining a respective received time stamp f...