windows 10 USB Device has Special Characters in Serial Number

[Guest DouglasWilliams6]

Hello! I have a weird issue, for security reasons we need to retrieve the serial number of a USB device when it's plugged in and put it on an allow list ( using get-pnpdevice -Class 'USB' | foreach-object {$_.InstanceID}). Most USB drives return a 6-10 digit numerical string, that's consistent across all devices. However some devices return an odd string with special characters, and it seems to be randomly generated from the Windows USB driver-pack. An example of output that I see is here USB\VID_058F&PID_1234\5&2C4DCD65&0&9 (I only care about the last chunk of this output beg

 

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