US Patent Issued to Nuvoton Technology on June 2 for "Starvation-voltage based random number generator" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,427, issued on June 2, was assigned to Nuvoton Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Starvation-voltage based random number generator" was invented by Ziv Hershman (Givat Shmuel, Israel) and Tamir Golan (Kibbutz Givat-Chaim Meuchad, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes signal-source circuitry (SSC), an SSC power supply circuit (SSC-PS) and a digitization circuit. The SSC is configured to generate an output signal, which is guaranteed to meet specified electrical parameters provided that a supply voltage to the SSC is within a specified operating voltage range. The SSC-PS is configured to power the SSC wi...