ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,565, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Supplying fault managed power" was invented by Jason DeWayne Potterf (Austin, Texas), Chad M. Jones (Doylestown, Ohio) and Joel Richard Goergen (Soulsbyville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for power fault management that operates without power-source-side switching. A power transmitter is configured to provide power to a current loop, and a power receiver is configured to receive the power from the current loop. The power receiver is configured to, on a periodic basis, disconnect from the current loop to stop pul...