ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,782, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"Telecommunications network" was invented by Jerome Arokkiam (London) and Simon Ringland (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a method of operating a wireless local area network, the wireless local area network including a user device, a wireless access point and a wireless repeater, wherein the wireless repeater is configured to virtualise a Media Access Control, MAC, address of the user device when the user device is connected to the wireless repeater by changing the Organisationally Unique Identifier, OUI, of the MAC address,...