US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 20 for "Station association continuity across access point MAC address rotations" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,377, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Station association continuity across access point MAC address rotations" was invented by Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Stephen Michael Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: at an access point configured with a first basic service set identifier (BSSID): performing an association process by which one or more wireless stations wirelessly associate to the access point using the first BSSID; and while the one or more wireless stations remain associated to the access point: sending...