 ClearOne CLRO, a global provider of audio and visual communication solutions, announced today that it has been awarded a strategic new patent relating to power transmission for Power over Ethernet PoE systems by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Awarded on April 14, 2020, the patent describes a simple method for providing power to multiple devices in a daisy-chain series connection using PoE. Use of the new method can eliminate the 100-meter Ethernet distance constraint for power and data transmission. 