US Patent Issued to MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS on Nov. 11 for "Power status telemetry for powered devices in a system with power over ethernet" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,418, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Power status telemetry for powered devices in a system with power over ethernet" was invented by Gaoling Zou (San Jose, Calif.), Alberto Viviani (Mountain View, Calif.), Yangyang Wen (Austin, Texas) and Qicheng Huang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powered device interface assembly includes an optocoupler and a powered device interface. The opto-coupler is electrically coupled with a microcontroller of the power device interface. The powered device interface includes a telemetry circuit coupled with the opto-coupler and conf...