ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,046, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Communications of timing messages over network paths" was invented by Tathagata Nandy (Bangalore, India), Chethan Chavadibagilu Radhakrishnabhat (Bangalore, India) and Venkatachalam Swaminathan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a first network device including a first time clock sends, over a first network path, a first timing message of a time synchronization process to synchronize the first time clock and a second time clock that is connected to a second network device. The first network device rece...