US Patent Issued to VMware on Sept. 9 for "Media access control (MAC) address assignment for virtual network interface cards (VNICS)" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,550, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Media access control (MAC) address assignment for virtual network interface cards (VNICS)" was invented by Kejia Cui (Beijing), Lele Zhang (Beijing), Qi Wu (Beijing), Donghai Han (Beijing) and Honggang Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for media access control (MAC) address assignment for virtual network interface cards (VNICs) are described. One example may involve a first computer system may determining a first MAC address portion that is uniquely associated with the first computer system. A first VNIC may be assigned wit...