ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,375, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Entrokey Labs Inc. (Cheyenne, Wyo.).

"System and method for preprocessing and conditioning cosmic ray data for randomness generation" was invented by Scott Streit (Cheyenne, Wyo.), David Harding (Cheyenne, Wyo.), Matt Klepp (Cheyenne, Wyo.) and Richard Kane (Cheyenne, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a method for conditioning and preprocessing raw cosmic ray data to extract features and generate a binary string representing the inherent randomness in the data. Measurable characteristics of cosmic ray particles, such as arrival times and amplitudes, are proces...