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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2016
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
David M. Britz, Rumson, NJ (US);
Robert Bennett, Southold, NY (US);
Paul Shala Henry, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Irwin Gerszberg, Kendall Park, NJ (US);
Farhad Barzegar, Branchburg, NJ (US);
Thomas M. Willis, III, Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
Donald J. Barnickel, Flemington, NJ (US);
Pamela A. M. Bogdan, Neptune, NJ (US);
Brandon Pimm, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Ken Liu, Edison, NJ (US);
Dorothy Zarsky, Summit, NJ (US);
James Gordon Beattie, Jr., Bergenfield, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining power, by a communication device, from a current passing through a transmission medium via an inductive coupling between the communication device and the transmission medium where the communication device is physically connected with the transmission medium and providing communications, by the communication device, by electromagnetic waves that propagate without utilizing an electrical return path, wherein the electromagnetic waves are guided by one of the transmission medium or a dielectric core of a cable coupled to a feed point of a dielectric antenna. Other embodiments are disclosed.