US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Aug. 19 for "Time-of-day correction for network clock protocol" (Chinese, American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,261, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Time-of-day correction for network clock protocol" was invented by Yao Fu (Shanghai), Lenin Kumar Patra (Dublin, Calif.), Jeng-Jong Douglas Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xiaoqing Ma (Shanghai), Joergen P. R. Hofman-Bang (Ballerup, Denmark) and Yangyang Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a network having at least one slave node including a slave clock, a method of adjusting the slave clock relative to a master clock of a master node includes, at the slave node, correcting a time of day of the slave clock using (a) a slave pulse signal having a know...