Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for Medium Access Control Layer Security

MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647076154 A) filed by Nokia Technologies Oy on June 19, 2026, for Medium Access Control Layer Security.

Inventors include Schneider, Peter; Malkamki, Esa Mikael; Decarreau, Guillaume; Kaasalainen, Janne Veikko; and Tomala, Malgorzata.

The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.

Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a solution on MAC layer security. In particular, two types of TBs are introduced, where a first type of TB includes information that requires protection on the lower layer and a second type of TB includes information that does not require protection on the lower layer. For the first type ...