US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 10 for "Method for random number generator seed creation using uninitialized hardware" (Texas, Minnesota, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,348, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Method for random number generator seed creation using uninitialized hardware" was invented by Andrew Thomas Tauferner (Rochester, Minn.), Douglas Joseph (Austin, Texas) and Matthew Wolf (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes a memory and a processing device. The memory enters an uninitialized state in response to power being applied to the memory. The processing device is coupled to the memory, and is configured to select a portion of the memory in the uninitialized state to seed a random number generator proces...