ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,935, issued on March 24, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Methods of delivering power to communications network equipment and related systems and coaxial cables" was invented by Zoran Maricevic (West Hartford, Conn.), Marcel Schemmann (Maria Hoop, Netherlands), John O. Caezza (Farmington, Conn.), Brian J. Solomon (Middlefield, Conn.) and Eric J. Cormier (Bristol, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of delivering electric power to equipment of a communications access network are provided herein. In particular, a method of delivering electric power to the equipment includes generating an AC power signal ...