ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,531, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"System and method to dynamically monitor clock offsets in a locked state" was invented by Manik Singhal (Bengaluru, India) and Parthibhan Paramaguru (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to dynamically maintain mutually traceable clocks of different types may comprise a memory and a processor communicatively coupled to one another. The processor may be configured to receive a first clock and a second clock from a first network device, receive a third clock from a second network device, and select the first clock as a ...