US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Dec. 2 for "Media access control (MAC) address privacy handling" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,085, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Media access control (MAC) address privacy handling" was invented by Hui Luo (Marlboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations disclosed describe techniques to allow wireless devices to initially connect with randomized MAC addresses and send an encrypted permanent MAC for differentiated services. In one method, a first wireless device connects to an access point (AP) using a randomized MAC address. The first wireless device receives a request for a permanent MAC address from the AP. The first wireless device determines whether to send...