US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Sept. 8 for "Power-over-ethernet (PoE) device with multi-output transformer to generate output PoE power and device operational power" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,391, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Power-over-ethernet (PoE) device with multi-output transformer to generate output PoE power and device operational power" was invented by Jiguang Zheng (Beijing), Hailong Bai (Beijing), Yuying Chen (Beijing) and Yue Sun (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power-over-Ethernet (PoE) PD/PSE device comprises a powered device (PD) interface configured to connect to an upstream power sourcing equipment (PSE) and receive input PoE power from the PSE, and a PSE interface configured to connect to a downstream PD and to supply output PoE p...