ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,588, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Network improvements using adaptive timing compensation techniques" was invented by Uttam Bhat (Bangalore, India) and Bora Karaoglu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for managing clock drift compensation in a network of node devices. In some embodiments, such techniques may comprise determining a current status of a network that includes a set of node devices operating in a first mode, determining, based on the current status of the network, a quantity of the set of node devices to be switched to a second m...