US Patent Issued to HUGH NETWORKS SYSTEMS on Nov. 4 for "Gateway timing redundancy architecture and methods in a PTP synchronized communication system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,739, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HUGH NETWORKS SYSTEMS LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Gateway timing redundancy architecture and methods in a PTP synchronized communication system" was invented by Nimesh Ambeskar (Germantown, Md.), Patrick O'Neil (Germantown, Md.), Jayant Ramakrishnan (Germantown, Md.), Varsha Gorrepati (Germantown, Md.) and Sanhita Joshi (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A redundant architecture for a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) network includes a plurality of PTP grandmaster clocks that provide first timing messages to a plurality of PTP aware switches based on a timing reference. The PTP aware switch...