US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on Sept. 2 for "Random number generation unit and computing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,769, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Random number generation unit and computing system" was invented by Shunsuke Fukami (Sendai, Japan), William Andrew Borders (Sendai, Japan), Takuya Funatsu (Sendai, Japan), Shun Kanai (Sendai, Japan), Keisuke Hayakawa (Sendai, Japan) and Hideo Ohno (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A random number generation unit and a computing system using the same, the unit including a magnetic tunnel junction element and being capable of developing the characteristics required for the execution of probabilistic computing and operating at a higher speed. A magn...