US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 11 for "Timestamp synchronization between host and network interface device" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,853, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Timestamp synchronization between host and network interface device" was invented by Gregory J. Bowers (Hillsboro, Ore.), Priyalee Kushwaha (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Joshua A. Hay (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a network interface device that includes first circuitry to negotiate supported timestamp parameters and selectively translate a timestamp associated with a packet based on the timestamp parameters and second circuitry to cause transmission of the packet based on the translated timestamp. In some examples...