US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on July 15 for "Multimode power control scheme for optical module" (American, Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,829, issued on July 15, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multimode power control scheme for optical module" was invented by Antonio Carugati (Lissone MB, Italy), Jerrold M. Pianin (Peoria, Ariz.) and Theodor Kupfer (Feucht, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed by a host assembly including a controller, a power supply circuit, and a host connector to be connected to an optical module of a particular type among different types of optical modules respectively configured to accept different types of supply voltages. The method includes: when the optical module is connected to the host ass...