ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,627, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Configurable system counter based on a hardware clock frequency" was invented by Itamar Bonne (Maccabim, Israel), Ofer Naaman (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Benny Pollak (Yad Binyamin, Israel) and Max Chvalevsky (Mevaseret Zion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to generate time data according to a nominal frequency and based on an available frequency. A hardware clock of the system can operate according to the available frequency. The system can identify a difference between the available frequency and a nominal frequency. Based ...