US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Transmitting clock signals in network packets" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,999, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Transmitting clock signals in network packets" 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 network packets can include a preamble used to create phase alignment between a timing pulse and a bit position of a Start of Frame Delimiter (SFD) within the packet. The clock signal associated with the packet occurs when the SFD is ...