US Patent Issued to TP-LINK on Feb. 18 for "Techniques for managing a media access control address of a client device for communication with an access point" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,397, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TP-LINK CORPORATION PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Techniques for managing a media access control address of a client device for communication with an access point" was invented by Bolun Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a method for managing a media access control (MAC) address of a client device for communication with an access point (AP). The method is implemented by the client device and includes: communicating with the AP using a first MAC address of the client device; determining a second MAC address as a changed MAC address of the client device; commun...