US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Feb. 4 for "Semiconductor device and semiconductor storage device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,924, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device and semiconductor storage device" was invented by Tsuyoshi Atsumi (Kodaira, Japan) and Yasuhiko Kurosawa (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a seed generator circuit configured to generate a seed from inputted data by using first random number sequence data generated by an XorShift circuit; and a random number generator circuit configured to receive the seed as input to generate second random number sequence data by a second XorShift circuit."

The patent was filed on Nov. 2, 2023, under Appli...