US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for preventing arc on network cable disconnect" (California, Texas, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,743, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for preventing arc on network cable disconnect" was invented by George Allan Zimmerman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Chad M. Jones (Doylestown, Ohio), Jason Dewayne Potterf (Austin, Texas), Joel Richard Goergen (Soulsbyville, Calif.) and Elizabeth Kochuparambil (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for preventing an electrical arc upon disconnect of a network cable. A method can include monitoring a network cable connected to a device for faults at a remote location from a connector of the ...