ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,235, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Physical hardware clock virtualization" was invented by Noam Katz (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Amiram Lifshitz (Kfar Hess, Israel), Said Bshara (Tira, Israel), Erez Izenberg (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) and Jonathan Chocron (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to virtualize a physical hardware clock are described. The techniques may include utilizing a coefficients storage to store timestamp coefficient entries. When a timestamp request is received from a client, a selection circuit selects a timestamp coefficient entry from the coefficients s...