US Patent Issued to Clockwork Systems on Aug. 5 for "Clock syntonization using network effect and/or adaptive stochastic control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,708, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Clockwork Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Clock syntonization using network effect and/or adaptive stochastic control" was invented by Yilong Geng (Menlo Park, Calif.), Deepak Merugu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Balaji S. Prabhakar (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for syntonizing machines in a network. A coordinator accesses probe records for probes transmitted at different times between pairs of machines in the mesh network. For different pairs of machines, the coordinator estimates the drift between the pair of machines based on the transi...