ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,668, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Isolated transceiver for power over ethernet" was invented by Michael T. Paul (Goleta, Calif.), Heath Dixon Stewart (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Andrew J. Gardner (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node device for coupling to a network via a shared link that carries power and data. The network node device includes: one or more data transceivers to transmit and receive data over the shared link; physical layer circuitry (PHY) to transmit and receive data with the one or more data transceivers; and a galvanic isolation barrier ...