US Patent Issued to FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS on Nov. 4 for "Device and method for reverse powering a multi-unit optical network terminal" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,271, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS LLC (Dallas).

"Device and method for reverse powering a multi-unit optical network terminal" was invented by Erwin Wardojo (McKinney, Texas), John Valdez (Copper Canyon, Texas) and Scott Mispagel (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for powering a multi-unit optical network terminal (MU-ONT) located outside of a multi-unit building include obtaining reverse power from Power-over-Ethernet (POE) lines connecting the MU-ONT to terminal units (TUs) or customer premises equipments (CPEs) disposed inside the building. Reverse power may be injected int...