US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 30 for "Preventing abuse of media access control addresses by rogue devices" (Swiss, American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,524, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Preventing abuse of media access control addresses by rogue devices" was invented by Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland), Roberto Muccifora (Ropraz, Switzerland), Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Stephen Michael Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.) and Amine Choukir (Ecublens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided to determine validity of a MAC address. The methods involve obtaining a media access control (MAC) address validity message that indicates a plurality of valid MAC addresses i...