US Patent Issued to Equinix on May 12 for "Integrating terrestrial time feed with data center distribution networks for clock synchronization" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,391, issued on May 12, was assigned to Equinix Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Integrating terrestrial time feed with data center distribution networks for clock synchronization" was invented by Denis Phillip Reilly (Victor, N.Y.), Vadim Shmatko (Mountain View, Calif.), Ankur Sharma (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Venkatesan Ramakrishnan (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the disclosure describes techniques and devices for integrating a terrestrial time feed with one or more computer networks also having a global positioning source (GPS)-based reference time feed to provide improved computing device clock synchroniza...