US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 19 for "High power and data delivery in a communications network with safety and fault protection" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,364, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"High power and data delivery in a communications network with safety and fault protection" was invented by Joel Richard Goergen (Soulsbyville, Calif.), Chad M. Jones (Doylestown, Ohio), Douglas Paul Arduini (San Ramon, Calif.), Richard Anthony O'Brien (Livermore, Calif.), Daniel Lee Barsotti (Sacramento, Calif.) and Sung Kee Baek (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a remote network device, power and data from a central network device, wherein the power is used to power the remote network d...