ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,671, issued on April 7, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Precision timing across PCIe CEM NICS" was invented by Jason Christopher Rock (Austin, Texas) and Jonathan Foster Lewis (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Architectures and techniques are described that can facilitate precision timing synchronization with a network interface card (NIC) that is compliant with a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) card electromechanical (CEM) specification. In that regard, certain pins that are specified to provide JTAG functionality can be repurposed. Thereafter the particular JTAG pins that are ...