US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 14 for "Time-coordinated address rotation" (Swiss, American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,769, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Time-coordinated address rotation" was invented by Ugo Campiglio (Ecublens, Switzerland), Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Amine Choukir (Ecublens, Switzerland) and Javier Contreras (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, networks, systems, methods, and processes for rotating a Media Access Control (MAC) address of a device. A device can negotiate a periodicity for address rotation of the MAC address associated with the device. The device may receive a data frame and generate see...