ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,496, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Estimating time of departure for round trip time with rate adaptation" was invented by Claudio Rey (Chandler, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a transmitter to generate a sampled stream of data for a packet at a first sample rate. A data re-sampling circuit includes a re-timer engine to determine, using a fractional rate between the first sample rate and a crystal oscillator (XO)-divided sample rate, re-timer values including a difference between pulses of a pseudo-clock corresponding to the XO-integer-divided sample rate a...