ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,245, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Lanner Electronics Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Bypass switch device with indicating function, Ethernet network module and network appliance" was invented by Chung-Jen Su (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Min Meng (New Taipei, Taiwan), You-Cheng Liao (New Taipei, Taiwan), Lan-Feng Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Ming-Ting Ken (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bypass switch device with indicating function is disclosed. The bypass switch device is for use in a network appliance having at least one Ethernet network module, and comprises N switch units and a microcontroller. The microcontrol...