ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,554, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SANECHIPS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Time synchronization method, device and apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Ziyuan Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a time synchronization method, a time synchronization device, a time synchronization apparatus and a storage medium. The method includes: periodically generating, by a local device, a synchronization request signal, and determining a first reference ID of the local device; sending the synchronization request signal and the first reference ID to peer devices; receiving a second reference...