ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,992, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KAPSLOG (Maisons-Laffitte, France).

"Random number generation based upon a random bit sourcing from one or more registers of a computer" was invented by Peter Roger Simon (Maisons-Laffitte, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This method is implemented within a digital processor by: a) searching an internal register (R1, R2, R3.. R(n)) of the processor which content (b0, b1, b2.. b(n)) changes over time; b) extracting at a given time n bits from the register, nless than=1; c) using the n bits extracted at step b) as bit(s) for forming a random number of N bits to be generated; d) reiterating ...