ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,375, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and methods for transmission of timing information" was invented by Yassin Aden Awad (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a communications device in a wireless communications network is provided, the method comprising transmitting to an infrastructure equipment of the wireless communications network a time source indication, the time source indication indicating to the infrastructur...