ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,497, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Media Access Control (MAC) randomized bonjour servers identification and policy application" was invented by Anjanish Pandey (Bangalore, India), Suresh Vaidya (Bangalore, India), Vinay Gopi (Bangalore, India), Arun Prabhakaran Nair (Bangalore, India), Vikas Bangalore (Bangalore, India) and Thirumala Baladas Kunda (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may obtain a username upon authentication of the device. The username of the device may be associated with the device's MAC address, and used with any other identifier ...