ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,730, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Utilizing a removable quantum random number generator for a network device" was invented by Gert Grammel (Ditzingen, Germany) and Jason R. Pascucci (Milford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A removable quantum random number generator (QRNG) of a network device may generate one or more packets with random payloads, and may provide the one or more packets with the random payloads to a component of the network device. The component of the network device may cause the one or more packets with the random payloads to be forwarded to a d...