US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on June 30 for "Pseudo load sharing for Power over Ethernet applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,601, issued on June 30, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pseudo load sharing for Power over Ethernet applications" was invented by Willy Tjanaka (Santa Clara, Calif.), Eudean Michael Sun (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Eric Yam (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device providing pseudo load sharing capabilities using low-cost power supplies that do not have active load sharing. Each of the power supplies is connected to a corresponding power rail that delivers power to a corresponding subgroup of the PoE ports of the network device. A switchable link is connected between the power rails ...