ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,228, issued on June 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Trusted or attested packet timestamping" was invented by Alan Michael Judge (Dublin), Said Bshara (Tira, Israel), Julien Ridoux (Seattle), Joshua Benjamin Levinson (Seattle), David James Goodell (Seattle), Erez Izenberg (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) and Anthony Nicholas Liguori (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of apparatuses and methods for trusted and/or attested packet timestamping are described. In some embodiments, the disclosed system and methods include a reference timekeeper providing a reference clock to host comp...