ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,903, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"System and method to determine sets of untraceable clock domains" was invented by Manik Singhal (Bengaluru, India) and Parthibhan Paramaguru (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to determine sets of untraceable clock domains in the communication network may comprise a memory and a processor communicatively coupled to one another. The processor may be configured to select a clock as a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) clock, calculate a time drift associated with another clock, and average the time drift over multiple s...