ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,325, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Time synchronization with multi-chassis link aggregation" was invented by Venkatachalam Swaminathan (Bangalore, India) and Jagmeet Singh Hanspal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system provides multi-chassis link aggregation by the first and second electronic devices that are part of a logical device supporting an MCLAG, where the first electronic device includes a first time clock, and the second electronic device includes a second time clock. The first and second time clocks perform, over a link be...