US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 30 for "Seamless MAC address rotation in multi-link device using multiple IP stacks" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,108, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Seamless MAC address rotation in multi-link device using multiple IP stacks" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Stephen Michael Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.) and Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: at a multi-link device (MLD) configured for multi-link operation: establishing a first Internet Protocol (IP) stack of a first IP type and configured with a first IP address of the first IP type, wherein the first IP stack is associated to a first MLD media acce...