ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,375, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Initialization and synchronization for pulse power in a network system" was invented by Douglas Paul Arduini (Florence, Ore.), Sung Kee Baek (San Ramon, Calif.), Richard Anthony O'Brien (Livermore, Calif.), Joel Richard Goergen (Soulsbyville, Calif.), Chad M. Jones (Doylestown, Ohio), Jason DeWayne Potterf (Austin, Texas) and Ruqi Li (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving low voltage pulse power from power sourcing equipment at a powered device, synchronizing the powered device with a waveform of ...