US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 11 for "Single cable optical data/power transmission port breakout system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,307, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Single Cable Optical Data/Power Transmission (SCODPT) port breakout system includes a SCODPT powering device coupled to SCODPT powered devices via respective optical data/power transmission cables ("cables") and a SCODPT port breakout device. A plurality of single cable optical data/power ports on the SCODPT port breakout device are coupled ...