US Patent Issued to Block on May 19 for "Computing architecture for energy-efficient hash computation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,117, issued on May 19, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Computing architecture for energy-efficient hash computation" was invented by William Song (San Francisco), Yue Yang (San Francisco), Bertram Leesti (San Francisco), Mehrdad Ramezani (San Francisco), Afshin Rezayee (San Francisco), Kajornsak Julavittayanukool (San Francisco) and Weili Chen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hashing system includes data storage circuit elements that store words to be used for hashing a message. Each data storage circuit element stores a word without moving the word to any other data storage circuit element during hashing...