US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on June 23 for "Clock synchronization method" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,381, issued on June 23, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Clock synchronization method" was invented by Jere Knaappila (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of synchronizing the clocks between two connected BLUETOOTH(R) devices is disclosed. The two devices exchange packets that contain a timestamp that is indicative of the time that each device received a packet from the other device. By exchanging this information, each device may determine the offset between its internal clock and the internal clock of the other device. Once clock synchronization is achieved, the central devic...