ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,926, issued on July 29, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Client mac source address randomization by mesh nodes in wireless mesh networks" was invented by Thomas Vegas (Vaud, Switzerland), Anirban Karmakar (Vaud, Switzerland), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Amine Choukir (Ecublens, Switzerland) and Domenico Ficara (Vaud, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed at a mesh access point (MAP) of a mesh network in which MAPs are configured to communicate with each other over wireless backhaul links. The method includes: receiving, from a first wireless...