ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,030, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Enabling a power-cycle operation of a power supply module after a delay period has elapsed" was invented by Vinay Manjunath Hegde (Bangalore, India), Sampath Kumar Gembali (Bangalore, India) and Vinod Babu (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device includes one or more power supply modules (PSMs) and one or more processors. The one or more processors are to send, to a PSM of the one or more PSMs, a power-cycle command message. The power-cycle command message indicates that the PSM is to commence a power-cycle opera...