US Patent Issued to Ruckus IP Holdings on Dec. 9 for "Method and mechanism to assign a unique identifier to a station from an access point" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,451, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ruckus IP Holdings LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Method and mechanism to assign a unique identifier to a station from an access point" was invented by Kurt A. Lumbatis (Dacula, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point can track a station throughout a network using an identifier, for example, a media access control (MAC) address. However, as MAC addresses are randomized or changing, there is a need for the access point to provide a unique identifier to a station that does not rely on a MAC address. The access point can receive a unique identifier query response action frame from the station th...