ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,939, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method of clock synchronization between transmitter and receiver" was invented by Yu-Shen Chou (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Ko-Yin Lai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chih-Kang Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of clock synchronization between a transmitter and a receiver includes sampling a first receiver timestamp and a second receiver timestamp of the receiver at a first time and a second time respectively, sampling a first transmitter timestamp and a second transmitter timestamp of the transmitter at a third time and a fourth time r...