US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 15 for "Time-of-flight based cover detection for network devices" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,673, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Time-of-flight based cover detection for network devices" was invented by Abhishek Gubbi Basavaraj (Milpitas, Calif.), Frank Xavier Romero (Milpitas, Calif.), Anand Rajamani (San Jose, Calif.) and Aumen Kwok Lee (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein is an apparatus including: a network device housing including a slot configured to receive a network device module; a time-of-flight sensor including an emitter and a receiver, wherein the time-of-flight sensor is arranged within the network device housing such that the emitter and...