ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,490, issued on July 21, was assigned to Auradine Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Real-time cloud API for bitcoin mining systems" was invented by Liang Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Aditya Batra (Saratoga, Calif.), Robert Ashley (San Jose, Calif.), Patrick Xu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Sridhar Chirravuri (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital currency mining systems establish and maintain real-time communication channels using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) with a central management service. The central management service stores configuration and status information for the digital currency mining systems and configure...