ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,073, issued on May 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for determining clock, and storage medium" was invented by Jingfei Lyu (Wuhan, China), Fanshun Meng (Wuhan, China), Jinhui Wang (Dongguan, China) and Wei Su (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus are provided for determining a network device receiving a first signal and at least one second signal, wherein the first signal carries data to be sent through a first flexible Ethernet interface. A first physical layer clock is determined based on the first signal. A second physical layer clock is dete...