ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,396, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Power management method and apparatus for power sourcing equipment" was invented by Mujie Zou (Dongguan, China), Chenhui Deng (Dongguan, China), Shenghua Niu (Nanjing, China), Chao Gu (Nanjing, China) and Weibiao Chen (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management method includes power sourcing equipment (PSE) supplying power to a plurality of powered devices (PDs), and determining reserved power of the PSE based on a power usage status, where the reserved power is used to continue supplying power to the plurality of PDs when...