US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Sept. 1 for "Profiling of devices powered through power over ethernet for device security" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,470, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Profiling of devices powered through power over ethernet for device security" was invented by Jeslin Antony Puthenparambil (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ramakrishnan Sankaranarayanan (Pleasanton, Calif.), Suryakant Devangan (San Jose, Calif.), Ashwini Ulhas Borikar (Livermore, Calif.) and Arun Athrey Chandrasekaran (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Profiles of powered devices (PDs) are created based on monitoring device attributes and power consumption trends for connected PDs. An agent executing on power sourcing equipment (PSE) determine...