Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Roger Karam

61Patents
17h-index
24Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 26, 1997 → Feb 9, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7471014B2 Method and apparatus distributing power to a load in a powered device Electricity 227 Active
US6804351B1 Method and apparatus for detecting a compatible phantom powered device using common mode signaling Electricity 104 Expired
US7593747B1 Techniques for controlling delivery of power to a remotely powerable device based on temperature Physics 89 Active
US7921307B2 Methods and apparatus providing advanced classification for power over Ethernet Physics 80 Active
US7940787B2 Low-power ethernet device Electricity 76 Active
US7973538B2 Power over ethernet system having hazard detection circuitry to detect potentially hazardous cable conditions Physics 73 Active
US6310781A Connection pin layout for connecting integrated magnetics modules to a printed circuit board Electricity 71 Expired
US8184525B2 Method and apparatus for detecting and fixing faults in an inline-power capable ethernet system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 69 Active
US8020043B2 Field failure data collection Electricity 63 Active
US6952785B1 Methods and apparatus for powering a data communications port Physics 38 Expired
US7613939B2 Method and apparatus for changing power class for a powered device Electricity 32 Active
US5947773A Connector with ESD protection Electricity 32 Expired
US6614236B1 Cable link integrity detector Physics 31 Expired
US6912282B2 Enabling Cisco legacy power to support IEEE 802.3 AF standard power Electricity 31 Expired
US6958699B1 Signal-disruption detection in powered networking systems Physics 30 Expired
US7903809B2 Power management for serial-powered device connections Electricity 21 Active
US7404250B2 Method for fabricating a printed circuit board having a coaxial via Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US7724650B2 Multi-station physical layer communication over TP cable Electricity 17 Active
US7474704B2 Method and apparatus for current sharing ethernet power across four conductor pairs Electricity 13 Active
US7793137B2 Redundant power and data in a wired data telecommunincations network Electricity 12 Active
US8300666B2 Inline power-based common mode communications in a wired data telecommunications network Electricity 12 Active
US8171315B2 Method and apparatus for changing power class for a powered device Electricity 12 Active
US8035038B2 Method for fabricating a printed circuit board having a coaxial via Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US7457252B2 Current imbalance compensation for magnetics in a wired data telecommunications network Electricity 11 Active
US7849351B2 Power and data redundancy in a single wiring closet Electricity 10 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.