US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on May 13 for "Address rotation aware dynamic host control protocol" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,535, issued on May 13, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Address rotation aware dynamic host control protocol" 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: "A method comprises, at a wireless network controller of wireless access points through which wireless client devices that are wireless communicate with the controller: upon receiving, from a wireless client device, a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) request having a media access control (MAC) address, determining whether the wireless clie...