ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,266, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Authentication of a power over Ethernet device" was invented by Anshul Tanwar (Bangalore, India), Kumaril Kapoor (Bangalore, India), Praveen G R (Bangalore, India) and Padmanabhan Ramanujam (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from a powered device for power to be supplied from power sourcing equipment to the powered device; granting, in response to the request, provisional power to the powered device; receiving, an authentication request from the powered device to authenticate the po...