US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Oct. 27 for "Method and system for reverse powering a multi-unit optical network terminal" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,845, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for reverse powering a multi-unit optical network terminal" was invented by Erwin Wardojo (McKinney, Texas), John Valdez (Copper Canyon, Texas) and Scott Mispagel (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for powering a multi-unit optical network terminal (MU-ONT) located outside of a multi-unit building include obtaining reverse power from Power-over-Ethernet (POE) lines connecting the MU-ONT to terminal units (TUs) or customer premises equipments (CPEs) disposed inside the building. Reverse power may be ...