ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,740, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Power management techniques for powering 5G FR1 and mmWave antennas for devices with PoE" was invented by Hari Pillai (San Jose, Calif.), David M. Prives (Milpitas, Calif.), Phong Ho (Cary, N.C.) and Vignesh Rajendran (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology includes a device that supports a variety of communication interfaces. In such devices, modes can be configured that balance quality of service (QoS) factors with energy consumption factors. For example, it may not be necessary to keep all interfaces fully powered t...