ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,590, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Clock manager redundancy for time synchronized networks" was invented by Vuk Lesi (Cornelius, Ore.), Christopher Gutierrez (Hillsboro, Ore.), Shabbir Ahmed (Beaverton, Ore.), Marcio Juliato (Portland, Ore.) and Manoj Sastry (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for clock manager redundancy comprises a clock circuitry to manage a clock for a device; a first processing circuitry coupled to the clock circuitry to execute instructions to perform operations for a clock manager, the clock manager to receive messages with time information for a...