ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,352, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"Methods for accelerating prime number generation in electronic devices" was invented by Andre Silveira (Gold River, Calif.) and Gamil Cain (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to prime number generation in an electronic device. The electronic device has a first executable and a second executable, and each executable has a unique identifier. The electronic device generates a wrapping key for the first executable and encrypts a prime number with the wrapping key of the first executable...