US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on March 4 for "Method and network device for locating clock fault" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,180, issued on March 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and network device for locating clock fault" was invented by Yawei Zhang (Beijing), Jingfei Lv (Wuhan, China) and Yong Cheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for locating a clock fault includes that a network device locates a clock fault source based on whether first frequency offsets between a plurality of input clocks and a local clock exceed a frequency offset threshold, or based on whether second frequency offsets between the input clocks exceed a relative frequency offset threshold."

The patent was filed on M...