ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,683, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies to compensate for errors in time synchronization due to clock drift" was invented by David McCall (Dallas) and Kevin Stanton (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides techniques for measuring and compensating for clock drift errors in time-aware networks and time-sensitive applications, where a time-aware system (TAS) measures clock drift, and compensates for the measured clock drift, and makes predictions of future clock drift values based on history and other physical measurements. Existing messages used fo...