Patent ID: 11907686
Assignee: VEIOVIA LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method of generating random numbers, comprising:
receiving data output from an instrument characterising macromolecules in a sample, the data including measurement event information relating to measurements of individual macromolecules recorded over time;
determining, for each measurement event in a sequence of measurement events in the data, an event timing (or dwell) representative of the duration of event or the time passing between consecutive events;
comparing data based on each event timing with a comparator value to generate a binary output;
determining a bit value based on the binary output of the comparison for each event timing;
generating data representative of a random number by assembling a vector of bit values determined from the event timings in sequence;
wherein the determined sequence of event timings for the sequence of measurement events represents a source of entropy extracted by the comparison step to generate the random number.