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https://www.nist.gov/patents/inventors/1159681
Search Patents by Michael A. Lombardi
Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.
Disciplined clocks work by using an external reference source to synchronize the time of their local clock, and to control the frequency of the clock’s local oscillator so that the clock is continuously kept on time. The external reference source for a disciplined clock is typically a radio