ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,161, issued on April 29, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Clock manager monitoring for time synchronized networks" was invented by Vuk Lesi (Cornelius, Ore.), Christopher Gutierrez (Hillsboro, Ind.), Manoj Sastry (Portland, Ore.), Marcio Juliato (Portland, Ore.), Shabbir Ahmed (Beaverton, Ore.) and Qian Wang (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for clock manager monitoring for time sensitive networks are described. An apparatus, comprises a clock circuitry to manage a clock for a device, a processing circuitry coupled to the clock circuitry, the processing circuitry to execute instructions to pe...