US Patent Issued to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES on May 20 for "Companion metadata for precision time protocol (PTP) hardware clock" (Israeli, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,952, issued on May 20, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Companion metadata for precision time protocol (PTP) hardware clock" was invented by Thomas Kernen (Russin, Switzerland), Dotan David Levi (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Bar Or Shapira (Tel Aviv, Israel), Georgi Mihaylov Chalakov (Duvall, Wash.) and Aviad Itzhak Raveh (Hofit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and devices for sharing time information between machines are provided. In one example, a system includes a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) Hardware Clock (PHC) and an application. The application receives time information from th...