ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,160, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TurbineOne Inc. (San Francisco).
"Synchronizing nodes in a network" was invented by Charles R. Barker Jr. (Orlando, Fla.), Keith Joseph Goldberg (Winter Park, Fla.), Matthew Warren Amacker (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ian Jay Kalin (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first node may transmit a first multicast beacon to one or more nodes of a squad that form a network. The first node may receive a unicast synchronize request from a second node of the squad. The unicast synchronize request initiates a synchronization process between the first node and the second node and includes a first no...