ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,697, issued on May 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Heterogeneous clock management solution" was invented by Vikram Dadwal (Chandler, Ariz.), James Coleman (Mesa, Ariz.) and Alexander Slota (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for an heterogeneous clock management solution for industrial systems are described herein. In an example, a system includes a clock management circuit adapted to receive core timing information from a core of an integrated circuit. The clock management circuit is further adapted to correlate the core timing information with a reference clock. The clock manag...