ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,717, issued on June 3, was assigned to MBDS INC. (Chicago).
"ASCII-seeded random number generator" was invented by Antonino Todaro (Milan) and Paolo Pedretti (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assigning a random number to a user in a set of users includes computing a random number assignment seed value based on an ASCII-value representation of the user's name, dividing the random number assignment seed value by a quantity of unassigned numbers available to be assigned to the user to produce a modified random number assignment seed value, rounding the modified random number assignment seed value down to an integer, comp...