Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for Method And Apparatus For Protecting A Media Access Control (mac) Header Of A Mac Protocol Data Unit (mpdu)

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617077055 A) filed by Newracom, Inc. on June 22, 2026, for Method And Apparatus For Protecting A Media Access Control (mac) Header Of A Mac Protocol Data Unit (mpdu).

Inventors include Jung, Hyun Sik; and Lee, Joonsoo.

The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.

Abstract: An embodiment is a method performed by a wireless device to protect a media access control (MAC) header of a MAC protocol data unit (MPDU). The method includes encrypting a payload of the MPDU, generating first additional authentication data (AAD) based on concatenating a set of fields included in the MAC header and masking one o...