ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,852, issued on Dec. 9.
"System and method for a subscriber-powered network element" was invented by Alexander Ivan Soto (Las Vegas) and Walter Glenn Soto (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for powering a network element of a fiber optic wide area network is disclosed. When communication data is transferred between a central office (CO) and a subscriber terminal using a network element to convert optical to electrical (O-E) and electrical to optical (E-O) signals between a fiber from the central office and twisted wire pair, coaxial cable or Ethernet cable transmission lines from the subscriber terminal, techniques rela...