ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,442, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Synchronizing a real-time clock and a network clock" was invented by Kishore Kasichainula (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for synchronizing a real-time clock and a network clock are described herein. A network device maintains an always running time (ART) replica of an ART in a compute system. The network device samples network time updates (e.g., precision time protocol messages) and the ART replica to produce error correction of the ART replica to the network time. The error correction is written to memory of the compute device ...