ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,732, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Network generated precision time" was invented by Lyle W. Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.), Peter Paul Dawson (Portsmouth, N.H.) and Walter F. Rausch (Olathe, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synchronization of precision timing signals maintained by multiple communication networks is described. A precision timing signal may be generated based on the change in state of a plurality of processors. Synchronization of the precision timing signals may be facilitated by a computing device monitoring at least two communication networks. The computing ...