MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202544095144 A) filed by Google Llc, Mountain View, U.S.A., on Oct. 3, 2025, for 'enhanced user privacy and power saving for device address rotation.'
Inventor(s) include Myers, Russell William; On, Calvin; and Shevde, Sumukh Ashok.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Techniques are described for triggering, by an address rotation unit of a computing device, determination of a first address identifier for the computing device, wherein the first address identifier is an active address identifier for the computing device that identifies the computing device according to a wireless communication protocol, and wherein the address rotation unit is a distinct component from a processing unit of the computing device; in response to the address rotation unit determining a timer elapses, triggering, by the address rotation unit and while the processing unit is operating in a low-power mode, determination of a second address identifier for the computing device; setting, by the computing device, the second address identifier as the active address identifier for the computing device; and broadcasting, by the computing device and based on the active address identifier, an advertisement, wherein the advertisement conforms to the wireless communication protocol."
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