ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,487, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Time recovery from attacks on delayed authentication" was invented by Marcio Juliato (Portland, Ore.), Manoj Sastry (Portland, Ore.), Christopher Gutierrez (Hillsboro, Ore.), Vuk Lesi (Cornelius, Ore.) and Shabbir Ahmed (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to perform time recovery from attacks on delayed authentication in a time synchronized network are described. One embodiment comprises a method for decoding time information and a message authentication code (MAC) from a time message, the time information to synchronize a local clock fo...