US Patent Issued on March 18 for "System and method for global synchronization of time in a distributed processing environment" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,878, issued on March 18.

"System and method for global synchronization of time in a distributed processing environment" was invented by Robert Bismuth (Seattle) and Mike Stengle (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method employing a precisely synchronized time in connection with a distributed hardware architecture are disclosed. Using an independent and trusted time signal and a second transition pulse signal, each resource in the distributed hardware architecture may be synchronized precisely to the same absolute time."

The patent was filed on Feb. 12, 2024, under Application No. 18/439,189.

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