ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,107, issued on June 23, was assigned to CommScope Technologies LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Data and high voltage power network with consolidated enclosure" was invented by Wayne Hopkinson (Hickory, N.C.), Ronna Davis (Henderson, Nev.), Scott Keith (Plano, Texas) and Jeffrey Oberski (Lucas, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network architecture and a ceiling-mounted enclosure for an office building allows end user devices far from a main equipment room to communicate with servers and outside provider services available within the equipment room. Network cabling includes at least one optical fiber to establish communication between th...