US Patent Issued to BITMAIN TECHNOLOGIES on May 5 for "Computing apparatus for proof of work, and ASIC chip and computing method for proof of work" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,175, issued on May 5, was assigned to BITMAIN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Beijing).

"Computing apparatus for proof of work, and ASIC chip and computing method for proof of work" was invented by Xufeng Wu (Beijing), Cunyong Yang (Beijing) and Ketuan Zhan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing apparatus and method for proof of work, and a chip are provided. The computing apparatus includes: N selectors, respectively configured to obtain N groups of first input quantities; and N first compressors, respectively connected to the N selectors, and respectively configured to receive the N groups of first input quantities sent by the N sele...