US Patent Issued to PERFTECH on March 17 for "Maintaining IP/MAC association using ARP scanning and spoofing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,857, issued on March 17, was assigned to PERFTECH INC. (San Antonio).

"Maintaining IP/MAC association using ARP scanning and spoofing" was invented by Lewis T. Donzis (San Antonio) and John Anthony Murphy (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of storing a public key of a router and a private key of the router, connecting to a network through one or more network connection ports of the router, transmitting the public key of the router to a remote device and receiving a public key of the remote device via a network connection port during a public key exchange, activating a virtual pri...