US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 22 for "Method and apparatus for accounting for propogation delay with distributing a clock signal" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,568, issued on July 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Method and apparatus for accounting for propogation delay with distributing a clock signal" was invented by James Paul Rivers (Capitola, Calif.) and Scott Andrew Emery (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock signal in a clock distribution network is transmitted using network packets with the clock signal embedded within a bit of the network packets. The clock signal is adjusted to account for propagation delay in transmitting the clock signal throughout a clock distribution network. The propagation delay is computed using a round-trip packet...