US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on July 14 for "Wireless client Media Access Control (MAC) address collision avoidance" (Swiss, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,925, issued on July 14, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wireless client Media Access Control (MAC) address collision avoidance" was invented by Thomas Vegas (Gland, Switzerland), Anirban Karmakar (Ecublens Vaud, Switzerland), Robert Barton (Richmond, Canada) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first access point of a wireless network minimizes Media Access Control (MAC) address collisions in the wireless network. The first access point receives an association request from a first wireless device. The association request identifies a first MAC address of the first wireless devi...