US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on May 5 for "Communication of network time synchronization" (Florida, Washington, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,119, issued on May 5, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Communication of network time synchronization" was invented by Rhett Smith (Odessa, Fla.), Lance G. Dice (Pullman, Wash.), Jason A. Dearien (Moscow, Idaho), Robert Meine (Port Richey, Fla.) and Daniel B. Rippon (Pullman, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for configuring time synchronization in a network. The system includes a time signal source to provide a common time signal to multiple configurable communication devices and a network controller in a control plane, in communication with the multiple co...