US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 30 for "Wire fault detection techniques for power over communications cabling" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,017, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wire fault detection techniques for power over communications cabling" was invented by Joel Richard Goergen (Soulsbyville, Calif.), Chad M. Jones (Doylestown, Ohio) and Paolo Sironi (Gallarate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting power in a power and data distribution system comprising at least two pairs of wires, negotiating a power level between Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) and a Powered Device (PD) in the power and data distribution system, transmitting the power at a power level greater than 100 ...