ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,305, issued on Aug. 25.
"Access stratum security for medium access control transport blocks" was invented by Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi (San Diego), Soo Bum Lee (San Diego) and Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for access stratum level security of medium access control (MAC) transport blocks (TBs). A method for wireless communications includes generating a unique ciphering sequence number for each MAC TB of a plurality of MAC TBs. The method includes encrypting each of the plurality of MAC TBs based, in part, on the unique ciphering se...