US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 19 for "Bi-directional power over ethernet for digital building applications" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,365, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Bi-directional power over ethernet for digital building applications" was invented by Joel Richard Goergen (Soulsbyville, Calif.), Chad M. Jones (Doylestown, Ohio) and Charles Lacey Compton III (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of network devices comprising a plurality of ports, a power bus connecting the network devices, wherein power is shared between the network devices over the power bus, and a controller for identifying available power and allocating power to the ports. The ports include a plurality of...