US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on July 1 for "Systems and methods for co-transmission of discrete power and data" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,281, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for co-transmission of discrete power and data" was invented by Sudip K. Mazumder (Chicago) and Ankit Gupta (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for co-transmitting discrete power and data over a common high frequency channel includes a power transmitting node, a power receiving node, a data transmitting node, a data receiving node, a power transmitting switch, a power receiving switch, a data transmitting switch, a data receiving switch, a primary power switch, a secondary power switch, a common ...