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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2022
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abhishek Gubbi Basavaraj, Milpitas, CA (US);
Frank Xavier Romero, Milpitas, CA (US);
Anand Rajamani, San Jose, CA (US);
Aumen Kwok Lee, Plano, TX (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Presented herein is an apparatus including: a network device housing including a slot configured to receive a network device module; a time-of-flight sensor including an emitter and a receiver, wherein the time-of-flight sensor is arranged within the network device housing such that the emitter and the receiver have line-of-sight to a location relative to the network device housing at which a cover for the slot is arranged; and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the time-of-flight sensor. Also presented herein is a method including: obtaining, from a time-of-flight sensor arranged within a slot of a network device housing, time-of-flight sensor data; determining a distance between the time-of-flight sensor and a target based upon the time-of-flight sensor data; and determining, based upon the distance, that a cover is covering the slot or that the cover is not covering the slot.