ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,257, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Low cost fail-2-wire circuit" was invented by Subramaniam Veerabagu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jeslin Antony Puthenparambil (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power loss detector monitors a power supply to a monitored networking device to detect an imminent power loss, where a port of the monitored networking device is connected to a bypass module. A bypass controller in a bypass module in response to detecting the imminent power loss, determines whether to bypass the monitored networking device; and in the event it is determined to...