ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,885, issued on May 20, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Policy-based wireless infrastructure-initiated device address rotations for a wireless local area network" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Robert Edgar 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 policy-based wireless infrastructure-initiated device address rotations for wireless devices of a wireless local area network (WLAN). In one example, a method may include obtaining device information for a plurality of wireless devices connected to the wireless net...