ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,253, issued on May 20, was assigned to MITAC COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Method of monitoring clock signal of server" was invented by Yu-Yuan Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Po-Wei Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chi-Hua Li (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a clock signal of a server is provided. The server includes a phase-locked loop (PLL), a baseboard management controller (BMC), and a light emitting unit. The method includes steps of: A) the server executing a time synchronization service to obtain a synchronization mode that the PLL is operating in, where the synchronization mode is on...