ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,785, issued on May 5, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Time synchronization techniques" was invented by Shuaihua Kou (Shenzhen, China), Peng Hao (Shenzhen, China), Wei Gou (Shenzhen, China) and Junfeng Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described to determine a time clock value by a communication device using information provided by a network device. An example wireless communication method includes receiving, by a communication device, a first signal in a first time period; transmitting, by the communication device, a second signal in a second time period later than the first time period ...