US Patent Issued to PHIHONG TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 11 for "Bidirectional power over ethernet to USB-C converter for power and data" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,363, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PHIHONG TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Bidirectional power over ethernet to USB-C converter for power and data" was invented by Richard Frosch (Bohemia, N.Y.), Joseph DaSilva (Bohemia, N.Y.) and Zhenya Gong (Bohemia, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional PoE to USB-C converter for power and data, which includes a PoE interface to receive and transmit PoE power and Ethernet data, a USB-C interface to receive and transmit USB-C power and data, an Ethernet/USB data converter configured to transpose Ethernet data from the PoE interface to the USB-C interface and vice versa by...