ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,916, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Time synchronization using a management controller and an out of band communication channel" was invented by Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie, Texas), Richard M. Tonry (Georgetown, Texas), Abeye Teshome (Austin, Texas), Bassem El-Azzami (Austin, Texas), Mohit Arora (Frisco, Texas), Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (Mckinney, Texas), Adolfo Sandor Montero (Pflugerville, Texas) and Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing a data processing system are disclosed. To manage the data processing system,...