US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on June 30 for "Power distribution and communication infrastructure for connected appliances" (American, Italian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,857, issued on June 30, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Power distribution and communication infrastructure for connected appliances" was invented by Joel Richard Goergen (Soulsbyville, Calif.), Angelo Fienga (Rome), Maria Soledad Palmero Amador (Toledo, Spain) and Hazim Hashim Dahir (Wake Forest, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power distribution and communications infrastructure for electric appliances and systems of electric appliances. Specifically, an electric appliance includes a housing, a network interface configured to enable network communications, and at least one primary appliance component ...