US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 14 for "Determining a residence time in a portion of a network" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,702, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Determining a residence time in a portion of a network" was invented by Tobias Striffler (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclosed herein include methods and systems for determining a residence time of a synchronization message according to a precision time protocol or PTP wherein the synchronization message is transmitted through a section or portion of a network. While transparent clocks are usually regarded as monolithic devices, a residence time may be determined as a time for traversing devices or nodes distributed within a network or within...