US Patent Issued to POE-X on Feb. 17 for "Multi-drop PoE network for power distribution and communication" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,418, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to POE-X PTY LTD. (Kenthurst, Australia).

"Multi-drop PoE network for power distribution and communication" was invented by Norman Samuel Boemi (Kenthurst, Australia), David John Bull (Lane Cove, Australia) and James Bull (North Kellyville, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention proposes a DC power distribution system comprising power source equipment (PSE) providing high powered power over ethernet connections of 200 W per ethernet cable connected with powered devices (PDs) and power distribution units (PDUs). The PD and PDUs connected to the PSE have second ethernet port ...