US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on May 26 for "Suspension and disabling of faulting devices powered through power over ethernet" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,144, issued on May 26, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Suspension and disabling of faulting devices powered through power over ethernet" was invented by Suryakant Devangan (San Jose, Calif.), Jeslin Antony Puthenparambil (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sneha Srinivasan (Fremont, Calif.) and Arun Athrey Chandrasekaran (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power sourcing equipment ("PSE") can temporarily suspend or indefinitely disable powered devices ("PDs") exhibiting faults for more efficient resource utilization and preservation of the PSE hardware. The PSE maintains a first counter for each connect...