US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 4 for "Fault managed power method for AC powering systems" (California, Texas, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,731, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fault managed power method for AC powering systems" was invented by Joel Richard Goergen (Soulsbyville, Calif.), Elizabeth Kochuparambil (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Chad M. Jones (Doylestown, Ohio), John W. Beecroft (Camarillo, Calif.) and Jason Dewayne Potterf (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for alternating current (AC) powering methods deployed at a power transmitter and a power receiver for line fault detection. AC power is applied to a pair of lines at a power transmitter to transmit the AC power to a power receiver. An occurrence...