US Patent Issued to Extreme Networks on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus and method for discovering power connections using power patterns" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,988, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Extreme Networks Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for discovering power connections using power patterns" was invented by Yury Ostrovsky (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects of this disclosure relate to system and methods for discovering a power connection between a power supply device and a network device. An application server transmits a message to a first network device to cause the first network device to consume power according to pattern information and timing information of the message. The application server receives power usage data of network work device...