US Patent Issued to Accton Technology on Jan. 28 for "Network switch and circuit board where precision time protocol module is used" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,407, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Accton Technology Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Network switch and circuit board where precision time protocol module is used" was invented by Kuan-Tse Lee (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network switch can include a precision time protocol (PTP) module and a circuit board. The PTP module can provide a first clock signal and include a predetermined interface. The circuit board can include a socket, an oscillator and a selection unit. The socket can be inserted by the predetermined interface to receive the first clock signal. The oscillator can provide a second clock signal. The ...