ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,039, issued on April 21, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"System and method for time synchronization between multiple operating systems" was invented by Zerui Wen (Shanghai), Yongfeng Lei (Shanghai), Fengyue Ren (Shanghai) and Chuanhua Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for time synchronization between multiple operating systems is provided, the system includes a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) configured to obtain and maintain absolute time; and multiple operating systems (OS) that obtain the absolute time from the FPGA and perform time synchronization based on t...