US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 27 for "Power delivery through an optical system" (California, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,844, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Power delivery through an optical system" was invented by Joel Richard Goergen (Soulsbyville, Calif.), Charles Calvin Byers (Wheaton, Ill.), Robert Gregory Twiss (Chapel Hill, N.C.), D. Brice Achkir (Livermore, Calif.) and Chad M. Jones (Doylestown, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving power delivered over a data fiber cable at an optical transceiver installed at a network communications device and transmitting data and the power from the optical transceiver to the network communications device. The network...