US Patent Issued on July 15 for "Power management system and method for operating multiple high-powered components using a single power-over-ethernet cable connection" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,775, issued on July 15.

"Power management system and method for operating multiple high-powered components using a single power-over-ethernet cable connection" was invented by Jagdish Ramesh Mundkur (Yardley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of powering up multiple electronic components that are connected to a single cable of a PoE system, wherein combined startup power requirements of the electronic components surpass available power. A threshold wattage is selected that is no greater than the maximum wattage of the PoE system. The controller is powered on at an initial time point. A first of a plurality of mon...