ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,813, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cross-network time-alignment characterization for scheduled traffic" was invented by Marcio Juliato (Portland, Ore.), Javier Perez-Ramirez (North Plains, Ore.), Mikhail Galeev (Beaverton, Ore.), Manoj Sastry (Portland, Ore.), Dave Cavalcanti (Portland, Ore.), Christopher Gutierrez (Hillsboro, Ore.), Shabbir Ahmed (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Vuk Lesi (Cornelius, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques include a method, apparatus, system and computer-readable medium to detect, quantify and localize attacks to enhance security for time-synchronized networking. Em...