ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,489, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Clock adjustment holdover" was invented by Wojciech Wasko (Mlynek, Poland), Dotan David Levi (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Natan Manevich (Ramat HaSharon, Israel) and Maciek Machnikowski (Reda, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a clock synchronization system includes clock circuitry to maintain a clock running at a clock frequency, a clock controller, and a processor to execute software to generate clock update commands and provide the clock update commands to the clock controller, wherein the clock controller is configured to apply...