ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,179, issued on March 24, was assigned to ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Ring oscillator-based true random number generator" was invented by Alexander Klimov (Hadera, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A true random number generator (TRNG) as described herein can include a ring oscillator; and a sampling circuit coupled to an intermediate node of the ring oscillator, wherein the sampling circuit includes a reset, wherein the ring oscillator and the sampling circuit are formed of components from a standard cell library. The sampling circuit includes a storage cell selected for having a shortest oscillation period of a data i...