ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,515, issued on May 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Clock leader monitoring for time-synchronized networks" was invented by Vuk Lesi (Cornelius, Ore.), Shabbir Ahmed (Beaverton, Ore.), Christopher Gutierrez (Hillsboro, Ore.), Marcio Rogerio Juliato (Portland, Ore.) and Manoj R. Sastry (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for evaluating time synchronization values provided from a clock leader are discussed. An example method performed by a clock follower device includes: obtaining a timestamp from a time synchronization protocol that provides synchronized time values from a c...