US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for preventing duplicate network address assignment for a network device" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,728, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for preventing duplicate network address assignment for a network device" was invented by Sanjay Ravi Vyas (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive a MAC address and MAC integer of a network device newly provided in a network relative to existing network devices, existing IP addresses associated with the existing network devices, and a list of available IP addresses. The device may convert the available IP addresses into integers, and may select a first available IP address. The device may i...