ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,177, issued on May 13, was assigned to Lenbrook Industries Ltd. (Pickering, Canada).

"Power-over-ethernet (PoE) powered multichannel streaming audio amplifier" was invented by Taresh Vadgama (Pickering, Canada), Ross Graham Gordon Eberlin (Aurora, Canada) and Gregory R. Stidsen (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power-over-Ethernet (PoE) powered multichannel streaming audio amplifier includes a plurality of Ethernet ports each configured to be coupled to an Ethernet cable and capable of receiving power and audio data transmitted over the Ethernet cables. Power supply circuitry connected to the Ethernet ports is configur...