US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 21 for "Network device with dynamic power management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,905, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network device with dynamic power management" was invented by Jaehwa Yoo (Milpitas, Calif.), Tuchih Tsai (Cupertino, Calif.) and Luis Saavedra (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and processes for dynamic power management in network devices are described herein. Power consumption in network devices may fluctuate due to varying load conditions, leading to inefficiency if all power supply units (PSUs) in these network devices remain active all the time. To address this, a network device is provided with a power ma...