US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 1 for "Deterministic address rotation" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,346, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Deterministic address rotation" was invented by Ugo Mario Campiglio (Morges, Switzerland), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Stephen Michael Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods that support deterministic random media access control (MAC) address rotation that allows sharing of an address identity with a trusted wireless network infrastructure by generating a next address based on a previously used address and a seed obtained from a previous association with the trusted network infrastructure. In these methods, a computing device...