US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 30 for "Encrypting MAC header fields for WLAN privacy enhancement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,512, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Encrypting MAC header fields for WLAN privacy enhancement" was invented by Jarkko L. Kneckt (Los Gatos, Calif.), Charles F. Dominguez (San Carlos, Calif.), Daniel R. Borges (San Francisco), Debashis Dash (San Jose, Calif.), Elliot S. Briggs (Carmel, Calif.), Sidharth R. Thakur (San Jose, Calif.), Su Khiong Yong (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yong Liu (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for encrypting media access control (MAC) Header fields for Wireless LAN (WLAN) privacy enhancement. For example, a transceiver of a station (STA) ...