US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 28 for "Device address rotation management protocol for a wireless local area network" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,542, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Device address rotation management protocol for a wireless local area network" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada) and Stephen Michael Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques herein facilitate a device address rotation management protocol that may be implemented for a wireless local area network (WLAN), which can be used to influence when wireless client devices or stations may rotate their Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, how to perform such rotations, and/or the like. In one e...