ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,963, issued on May 12, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).

"Over-the-air device, over-the-air method and over-the-air system" was invented by Ching-An Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Tzu-Lan Shen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Over-the-Air (OTA) method includes controlling the current state using a control state register. The method includes recording the current state and the hash algorithm. A sorting setter obtains a random number from a server. The method includes sorting the random numbers according to a preset sorting method to obtain a sorting parameter. A hash calcul...