ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,837, issued on July 29, was assigned to Legrand DPC LLC (West Hartford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for providing input power to a power distribution unit" was invented by Calvin Nicholson (Reno, Nev.), Christian Krause (Zwickau, Germany), Stefan Oebser (Zwickau, Germany), Swen Anderson (Limbach-Oberfrohna, Germany), Thomas Hsueh (Taipei, Taiwan) and Vimal Bhakta (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power distribution unit (PDU), including: a housing; one or more outlets; a power input connector; a controller; multiple power input conductors coupled to the power input connector; a pair of conductors coupled to and extending ...