ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,496, issued on July 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Single cable optical data/power transmission ethernet port adapter system" was invented by Victor Teeter (Round Rock, Texas), Shree Rathinasamy (Round Rock, Texas) and Neal Beard (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single cable optical data/power transmission Ethernet port adapter system includes a single cable optical data/power transmission powering device ("powering device") coupled to a powered device using an optical data/power transmission cable ("cable") and a single cable optical data/power transmission Ethernet port adapter device ("adap...