US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE on April 14 for "Finite state machine-based bit-stream generator for low-discrepancy stochastic computing" (Louisiana, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,202, issued on April 14, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE (Lafayette, La.).

"Finite state machine-based bit-stream generator for low-discrepancy stochastic computing" was invented by Mohammadhassan Najafi (Lafayette, La.), Mohsen Imani (Irvine, Calif.) and Sina Asadi (Lafayette, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a finite state machine-based low-discrepancy bit-stream generator that support generation of any number of independent low-discrepancy bit-streams. Here, the order of bit selection by the FSM of the bit-stream generator is determined based on the distribution of numbers in the Sobol s...