ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,501, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Circle Internet Group Inc. (New York).

"Broadcast-free threshold post-quantum key generation and verification over unencrypted channels from hardware-based correlated randomness" was invented by Vipin Singh Sehrawat (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating an encryption key. In one aspect, a method includes the generating and sending, by a first device, a stream of random challenges to other devices. Each other device processes, by a physically unclonable function (PUF) included in the device, the stream of random challenges twice to obtain ...