US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on March 25 for "Dynamic media access control addresses in a wireless network" (American, British, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,450, issued on March 25, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic media access control addresses in a wireless network" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Nancy Cam-Winget (Mountain View, Calif.), Simone Arena (Vimercate, Italy), Darrin Joseph Miller (Marysville, Ohio), Sudhir Kumar Jain (Fremont, Calif.) and Einar Nilsen-Nygaard (Waterside Kilmarnock, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments identify a station that rotates an over the air station address. As address rotation was not originally designed into wireless networks, the rotation can introduce communication challenges ...