ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,718, issued on June 3, was assigned to Veiovia Ltd. (Great Britain).

"True random number generation based on instrument data" was invented by Darren Hurley-Smith (Kent, Great Britain), Alastair Droop (York, Great Britain), Remy Lyon (New York) and Roxana Iuliana Teodor (York, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides computing apparatuses, methods and software for generating random numbers. Data is received from an instrument characterising macromolecules in a sample, the data including measurement event information relating to measurements of individual macromolecules recorded over time. For each me...