ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,056, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Zemfyre Inc. (Thornhill, Canada).
"Ethernet media converter apparatuses and systems" was invented by Alexandre Gourari (Toronto) and Yuri Luskind (Thornhill, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) devices and conventional Ethernet devices configured for 2-pairs or 4-pairs of wires are not compatible with each other. A media converter is provided to interface between SPE devices and conventional Ethernet devices. The media converter is configured to also interface between a SPE device that transmits power over the SPE cable, also called Power over Data Lines (PoDL), and...