ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,632, issued on Aug. 26.
"System identification based on determined clock information" was invented by John W. Day (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for transmitting messages between multiple devices of a communications network, or multiple nodes of a multiprocessor system, for example. The messages can include instructions related to transactions such as reading and/or writing values to a database, and a clock value and/or clock rate of one or more of the devices can be used to confirm the parties to the transaction before completing or authorizing the tr...