US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on July 29 for "Methods and apparatus relating to the supply of power to power over ethernet devices" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,012, issued on July 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus relating to the supply of power to power over ethernet devices" was invented by Joshua Rosenthal (San Jose, Calif.), John James Musante (Holtsville, N.Y.) and Oscar S. Ernohazy (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point, which is a Power over Ethernet (PoE) Powered Device (PD) measures input voltage and input current. The access point determines a power requirement of the access point based on the measured current, measured voltage, and information about power requirements of access point components or devic...