The only correlation I have found for this issue is waking the computer after sleep. Occurs with or without an external monitor, with our without other peripherals such as a Yubikey. Cannot correlate to any software...Microsoft, Apple software. Have tried resetting all devices under Appleid as has been suggested by someone on Reddit...no impact. I am giving up. I have accepted the fact that Apple will not address. Although it does not appear to create issues, Apple needs to address.