ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,087, issued on March 11, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Power-over-fiber system" was invented by Takahiro Kobayashi (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power-over-fiber system includes a power sourcing equipment including a semiconductor laser that oscillates with electric power to output feed light, a plurality of powered devices each including a photoelectric conversion element that converts the feed light from the power sourcing equipment into electric power, an optical fiber cable that transmits the feed light from the power sourcing equipment to the plurality of powered devices, and a switch elem...