US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on May 12 for "Clock synchronization between networked devices based on packet congestion information" (Polish, Israeli, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,460, issued on May 12, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Clock synchronization between networked devices based on packet congestion information" was invented by Wojciech Wasko (Mlynek, Poland), Dotan David Levi (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel) and Thomas Kernen (Geneva).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device includes control logic coupled to a receiver. The control logic detects an synchronization packet received via the receiver from a second network device over a network that is precision time protocol unaware. The control logic determines that a portion of the synchronization packet is asserted, indicat...