ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,535, issued on May 12, was assigned to Murrelektronik GmbH (Oppenweiler, Germany).
"Ethernet switch with integrated power supply unit" was invented by Olaf Prein (Luegde-Rischenau, Germany), Markus Rentschler (Dettingen, Germany) and Ingo Wolff (Oehringen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ethernet switch includes a housing that has at least one communication input for data of a controller, at least one system input for a system voltage and at least one communication output. At least one voltage output to an electrical load is also provided. A power supply unit, which provides the voltage supply for the switch, is provided in ...