US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for synchronizing network nodes" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,782, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for synchronizing network nodes" was invented by Mike A. Sluyski (Maynard, Mass.), Glen W. Miller (Maynard, Mass.), Jim Duda (Maynard, Mass.) and Markus Weber (Maynard, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the disclosure includes a network node synchronization system. The system may include a first node. The first node may include a first host card comprising a first (TOD) time of day counter, a first digital signal processor (DSP) comprising a first DSP counter; and a first optical communication device comprising...