ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,518, issued on May 12, was assigned to Zyxel Networks Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).
"Powered device for Power over Ethernet, Power over Ethernet system, and operating method thereof" was invented by Chung-Hsien Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Yueh-O Tseng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powered device (PD) for Power over Ethernet (PoE), a PoE system, and an operating method for PoE are provided. The powered device includes a first Ethernet transmission port, a second Ethernet transmission port, a power meter, and a controller. The first Ethernet transmission port receives a first power and a first packet fro...