ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,938, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Medium access control header obfuscation" was invented by Jarkko L Kneckt (Los Gatos, Calif.), Debashis Dash (San Jose, Calif.), Elliot S Briggs (Carmel, Calif.), Nisan Reuven (Rehovot, Israel), Qi Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sidharth R Thakur (San Jose, Calif.), Su Khiong Yong (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yong Liu (Campbell, Calif.) and Tianyu Wu (Monterey, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for medium access control header obfuscation. One example method includes a first device encrypting a data payload using a first encryption algorithm. The ...