US Patent Issued to Harmonic on Aug. 4 for "DOCSIS R-PHY without PTP" (Israeli, Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,937, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Harmonic Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"DOCSIS R-PHY without PTP" was invented by Adam Levy (Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel), Gidon Maister (Haifa, Israel), Andrii Shevchenko (Kyiv, Ukraine), Oleksandr Zolotarov (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Eyal Galin (Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synchronizing clocks across a Remote PHY network without use of the Precision Time Protocol (PTP). The clock used by the CCAP core may be referred to herein as a slave clock, while the clock used by each RPD may be referred to as a master clock. Time differences between each master clock and a slave clock in...