ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,449, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to PUFsecurity Corp. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Random number generator" was invented by Chun-Heng You (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chi-Yi Shao (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Kai-Hsin Chuang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Meng-Yi Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A random number generator and a random number generating method are provided. The random number generator includes a first stage generator and a second stage generator. The first stage generator outputs a first random number and a second random number at a first time point and a second time point, respectively. The second stag...