ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,888, issued on July 14, was assigned to Communications Test Design Inc. (West Chester, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for automatically testing a network switch" was invented by Daniel Philip Gillings (Downingtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically testing a network switch are disclosed according to various embodiments. In one example, a method for automatically and simultaneously testing Power over Ethernet (PoE) ports and traffic throughput of a network switch is disclosed. A data traffic is generated by a network tester with a predetermined speed based on a configuration of the network switch. Th...