Patent 7500118 was granted and assigned to Akros Silicon on March, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In a network device, a power potential rectifier is adapted to conductively couple a network connector to an integrated circuit that rectifies and passes a power signal and data signal received from the network connector. The power potential rectifier regulates a received power and/or data signal to ensure proper signal polarity is applied to the integrated circuit.