ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,097, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hestia Heating Inc. (Labrador City, Canada).

"Hybrid apparatuses for mining cryptocurrency and methods of operating the same" was invented by Joel Landry (Grand Lake, Canada), Christopher Wayne Searle (Labrador City, Canada), Robert Walter Burton (Labrador City, Canada) and Curtis John Doran (Labrador City, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid apparatus for charging electric vehicles and mining cryptocurrency is provided. The apparatus may comprise an electric power input associated with a rated maximum power capacity, an electric vehicle charger, a cryptocurrency miner and a power ...