US Patent Issued to Block on Aug. 11 for "Fault-tolerant hashing control architecture" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,148, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Fault-tolerant hashing control architecture" was invented by Haipeng Yan (Aurora, Canada), Afshin Rezayee (Richmond Hill, Canada), Vikram Suresh (Portland, Ore.) and Malcolm Smith (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for fault-tolerant hash control. In some examples, a hashing system receives a dataset. The controller apportions hashing calculations across hashing chips to calculate at least one hash digest based on the dataset. The hashing chips include at least a first hashing chip, a second hashing chip, and a third hashing ...