US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 29 for "Implementing rational clock crossing in a distributed system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,455, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Implementing rational clock crossing in a distributed system" was invented by Jie Zheng (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Ashutosh Mishra (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Rajat Rao (Bangalore, India) and Vesselina Papazova (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing rational clock crossing in distributed systems are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes estimating a timing budget for at least one path during rational clock crossing; maintaining at least a portion of data a...