US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on July 22 for "Locally unique mac address resolution" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,670, issued on July 22, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Locally unique mac address resolution" was invented by Piergiorgio Beruto (Genoa, Italy) and Kyle Storey (Orem, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface controller may include a transceiver coupled to a transmit buffer to send messages via a communications medium and coupled to a receive buffer to store messages received via the communications medium, each of said messages including a source field containing a media access control (MAC) address. A network node may include a network interface controller coupled to the t...