ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,279, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Scheduling 5G functions using a network adapter" was invented by Wojciech Wasko (Mlynek, Poland), Dotan David Levi (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Natan Manevich (Migdal HaEmek, Israel) and Timothy James Martin (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network adapter comprises an output that couples to a central processing unit (CPU) of a network device, a first clock coupled to the output and configured to be synchronized with a second clock that is external to the CPU and the network adapter, and circuitry coupled to the first clock. The ci...