ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,032, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Entropy source and charge pump of a random number generator" was invented by Rachael Parker (Forest Grove, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for facilitating random number generation with an entropy source. In an embodiment, the entropy source comprises two complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) inverters which are cross-coupled with each other between a first node and a second node. A third CMOS inverter of the entropy source includes an output terminal coupled to the first node, and an input terminal which is to receive a...