US Patent Issued to Lantronix on April 7 for "Power over ethernet card with expanded power for power sourcing equipment" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,416, issued on April 7, was assigned to Lantronix Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Power over ethernet card with expanded power for power sourcing equipment" was invented by Peter Monarski (Saint Louis Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are POE cards having a PCIe edge connector, configured to couple to a PCIe edge connector slot of a computing device, to receive power from a power supply. The card also includes an Ethernet interface device having ports for connection to POE capable devices through Ethernet cables. A DC-DC converter is configured to boost a voltage of power received at least partially through the PCIe edge c...