ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,962, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Dynamic length security in the physical layer" was invented by Christian Hofmann (Munich), Sameh M. Eldessoki (Munich), Tarik Tabet (Carlsbad, Calif.), Panagiotis Botsinis (Munich) and Amr Abdelrahman Yousef Abdelrahman Mostafa (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer programs for ciphering information in a physical layer of a wireless communications network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method can include obtaining, by a UE, a transport block for transmission using the physical layer, determining, by the UE, whether ...