ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,358, issued on June 2, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"MAC address learning in communication networks" was invented by Go Yazawa (Musashino-shi, Japan), Takahiro Kubo (Musashino-shi, Japan), Natsuki Yasuhara (Musashino-shi, Japan) and Shinichi Yoshihara (Musashino-shi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device according to an embodiment is a communication apparatus that is connected to a user apparatus via an access port and transmits user data from the user apparatus to another user apparatus connected to another communication apparatus via a network, and includes an acquisition function unit and an adv...