ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,521, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Resynchronization of devices that use different timing references" was invented by Bilal Sadiq (Plano, Texas), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas) and Junsung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes repeatedly sending, by a first device, sync beacons to a second device in a target network at a first frequency. The method also includes determining that the second device will use beacons received from an unrelated sync provider (USP) device for synchronization of a clock of the second device with the target network....