US Patent Issued to SR Technologies on July 29 for "Random changes of medium access control address of Wi-Fi station while connected to access point" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,063, issued on July 29, was assigned to SR Technologies Inc. (Sunrise, Fla.).

"Random changes of medium access control address of Wi-Fi station while connected to access point" was invented by Graham K. Smith (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a mobile station (STA) to periodically change its medium access control (MAC) address includes transmitting, from a STA, a first capability indication to an access point (AP) indicating that the STA supports identifiable random MAC (IRM). The STA receives a second capability indication from the AP indicating that the AP supports IRM. A first IRM address (IRM...