US Patent Issued to Samsung Electronics on May 13 for "Method and apparatus for configuring medium access control (MAC) address for ultra-wideband (UWB) communication" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,279, issued on May 13, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for configuring medium access control (MAC) address for ultra-wideband (UWB) communication" was invented by Jonghoe Koo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Gyubong Oh (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sehee Han (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of a first ultra-wideband (UWB) device, including identifying an extended MAC address of the first UWB device, generating a short MAC address of the first UWB device based on the extended MAC address, selecting one of the short MAC address and the extended M...