ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,388, issued on April 29, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Syntonization through physical layer of interconnects" was invented by Dotan David Levi (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Wojciech Wasko (Mlynek, Poland) and Natan Manevich (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a clock syntonization system includes a first compute node including a first physical hardware clock to operate at a first clock frequency, a second compute node, and an interconnect data bus to transfer data from the first compute node at a data rate indicative of the first clock frequency of the first physical ha...