US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on March 25 for "Thermal modeling for cables transmitting data and power" (Texas, California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,420, issued on March 25, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Thermal modeling for cables transmitting data and power" was invented by Joel Richard Goergen (Soulsbyville, Calif.), Chad M. Jones (Doylestown, Ohio), Christopher Daniel Bullock (Round Rock, Texas) and Dylan T. Walker (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a thermal modeling module, data from a Power Sourcing Equipment device (PSE) for cables extending from the PSE to Powered Devices (PDs), the cables configured to transmit power and data from the PSE to the PDs, calculating at the thermal mod...