ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,632, issued on June 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Extended personal area network time synchronization between a wireless communication device and a peripheral device" was invented by Richard Turner (Belfast, Great Britain), Gopinath Patra (Bangalore, India), Laurent Wojcieszak (Belfast, Great Britain) and Derrick Rea (Broughshane, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device (WCD) may perform a clock tracking procedure that comprises: transmitting, to an access point (AP), an extended ...