US Patent Issued to Apple on March 3 for "Systems and methods for communication over a network" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,002, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for communication over a network" was invented by James M. Hollabaugh (San Jose, Calif.), Calvin M. Ryan (Denver) and Mitul Mahendrakumar Panchal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host and one or more devices can communicate with each other using signals that couple communication data with power. The host can transmit the coupled data and the other device can decouple the communication data from the power. Further, the receiving device can replicate the transmitted communication signal without digital signal processing. The h...