US Patent Issued to CommScope Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Dual coax network with power distribution and mid-span tap for signals and/or power from same" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,269, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, N.C.).

"Dual coax network with power distribution and mid-span tap for signals and/or power from same" was invented by Christopher P. Gemme (Hickory, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication network includes first and second coaxial cables. The first cable transmits forward path, downstream signals to customer devices. The second cable receives reverse path, upstream signals from customer devices. In a preferred embodiment, the downstream bandwidth exceeds 500 MHz and the upstream bandwidth exceeds 500 MHz, such as frequencies of 5 to 550 MHz in b...