ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,449, issued on April 7, was assigned to WHELEN ENGINEERING COMPANY INC. (Chester, Conn.).

"Synchronization between devices in emergency vehicles" was invented by Caleb Garrett (Chester, Conn.) and Brandon Conlon (Chester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and storage medium for synchronization between nodes includes transmitting, by a first node, a first synchronization message; determining, by the first node, a first time at which the first synchronization message is transmitted; transmitting, by the first node, a second synchronization message containing a tx timestamp corresponding to the first time; receiving,...