US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on April 1 for "Device address rotation method to protect against unconsented tracking" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,915, issued on April 1, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Device address rotation method to protect against unconsented tracking" was invented by Shankar Ramanathan (Richardson, Texas), Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network infrastructure component determines a risk measurement associated with a wireless client device's use of a device address, and provides an advisory with respect to an address rotation strategy of the wireless client device based on the risk measurement. In some embodiments, t...