ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,933, issued on April 7, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to dynamically correct time keeping errors" was invented by Robin Hoel (Oslo, Norway), Anuvrat Srivastava (Bengaluru, India), Aniruddha P N (Bangalore, India) and Anand Kumar G (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes clock divider circuitry configured to divide a system clock by a pre-scaler input to generate a divided clock; counter circuitry configured to increment a system count based on the divided clock; comparison circuitry configured to determine a count difference between the system count and ...