ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,589, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).

"System and method for providing increased power using power over ethernet" was invented by Marcus Romner (Lund, Sweden) and Claes Ingvert (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling the output power of power sourcing equipment powering a device through an ethernet cable, comprising: performing a power negotiation between the power sourcing equipment and the powered device, the negotiation comprising establishing a relation between an output voltage of the power sourcing equipment and a loop current from the powered device to the power sourcing eq...