US Patent Issued to National Taiwan University, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Dec. 9 for "Method of generating randomness by public participation" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,897, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) and The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Method of generating randomness by public participation" was invented by Hsun Lee (Taipei, Taiwan), Yuming Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan), Jing-Jie Wang (Taipei, Taiwan), Hao Cheng Yang (Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Heng Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Yih-Chun Hu (Urbana, Ill.) and Hsu-Chun Hsiao (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating randomness by public participation may comprise: communicating with the commodity devices to execute a protocol comprising a setup phase, a contr...