ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,740, issued on March 18, was assigned to Evolution Malta Ltd. (Sliema, Malta).

"Methods and systems for operating physical random number generators" was invented by Eriks Nukis (Marupes Novads, Latvia) and Maxim Yanovskiy (Riga, Latvia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods and system for operating a plurality of Hardware Random Number Generators (HRNGs), such as e.g. physical roulette wheels, are provided. The method comprises sequentially launching each of the plurality of HRNGs such that none of the plurality of HRNGs have a starting point occurring at the same moment in time. Methods are included for selecti...