ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,664, issued on May 20, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dynamic precision time message rate support" was invented by Sanal Kumar Kariyezhath Sivaraman (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms, such as Precision Time Protocol (PTP), exist to help with timing synchronization across devices in a network. Accuracy of time synchronization may depend on various parameters, but one of the major parameters is PTP packet rate. Typically, PTP uses a static configuration having a high packet rate, which is not only limiting, but can also affect device and network performance. Accordingly, embodiments herei...