ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,800, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Capacitor coupled in parallel to a rectifying element of a rectifier in power-over-ethernet powered device to bypass noise from power line" was invented by Jiguang Zheng (Beijing), Yue Sun (Beijing) and Hongli Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power-over-Ethernet (PoE) powered device (PD) includes a PoE interface to receive a connector of an ethernet cable to connect the PD to a PoE power sourcing equipment (PSE). The PD includes a first power line connected to the PoE interface to receive PoE power from the PSE in a conn...