US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on Oct. 20 for "Precision timing across OCP NICS" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,467, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Precision timing across OCP 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 an open compute project (OCP) NIC specification. In that regard, certain pins that are specified to provide reduced media-independent interface (RMII)-based transport (RBT) can be repurposed. Thereafter the particular RBT pins that are repurp...