US Patent Issued to SR Technologies on July 1 for "Identification of wireless local area network stations using random medium access control addressing" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,236, issued on July 1, was assigned to SR Technologies Inc. (Sunrise, Fla.).

"Identification of wireless local area network stations using random medium access control addressing" was invented by Graham K. Smith (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a mobile station (STA) configured to associate to an access point (AP) is described. The method includes determining an identifiable random medium access control (MAC) address (IRMA), associating to the AP and transmitting the IRMA to the AP during the association. The method also includes using the IRMA as the transmitter address (TA) a next time the STA begins to a...