US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on July 14 for "Proactive notification of wireless client address rotation" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,341, issued on July 14, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Proactive notification of wireless client address rotation" was invented by Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Stephen Michael Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network controller provides proactive notification of a wireless client device's address rotation to layer 2 (L2) and/or layer 3 (L3) devices. Traditional methods of device address discovery rely on broadcasting of address queries across a plurality of links until a path to a device having the queried address responds. As device address ch...