ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,716, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Single cable optical data/power transmission high availability system" was invented by Shree Rathinasamy (Round Rock, Texas), Neal Beard (Austin, 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) high availability system includes a plurality of SCODPT transmission powering devices coupled to a SCODPT powered device via respective optical data/power transmission cables ("cables") and a SCODPT high availability device. A respective single cable optical data/power port on the SCO...