ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,617, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Logic circuitry packages storing tokens" was invented by Stephen D. Panshin (Corvallis, Ore.), Jefferson P. Ward (Vancouver, Wash.) and Michael Peeters (Tourinnes-la-Grosse, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logic circuitry package includes an interface to communicate with a host logic circuit and a logic circuit. The logic circuit is configured to store or generate a plurality of tokens corresponding to respective token indices. The logic circuit is configured to receive at least one challenge command from the host logic circuit inclu...