US Patent Issued to PLUME DESIGN on March 18 for "Counteracting MAC address randomization and spoofing attempts" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,219, issued on March 18, was assigned to PLUME DESIGN INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Counteracting MAC address randomization and spoofing attempts" was invented by Evan Jeng (Los Altos, Calif.), Vasudevan Nagendra (Ashburn, Va.), Tingyi Zhu (Mountain View, Calif.), Raghav Karnam (Milpitas, Calif.), Paul White (Palo Alto, Calif.), Derek Lownsbrough (Kelowna, Canada), Susmita Nayak (Palo Alto, Calif.) and William J. McFarland (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining whether dissimilar device identifiers in a network actually represent the same physical device. A method, accord...