US Patent Issued to Malikie Innovations on June 3 for "Elliptic curve random number generation" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,514, issued on June 3, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Dublin).

"Elliptic curve random number generation" was invented by Daniel Richard L. Brown (Mississauga, Canada) and Scott Alexander Vanstone (Campbellville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elliptic curve random number generator avoids escrow keys by choosing a point Q on the elliptic curve as verifiably random. An arbitrary string is chosen and a hash of that string computed. The hash is then converted to a field element of the desired field, the field element regarded as the x-coordinate of a point Q on the elliptic curve and the x-coordinate is tested for val...