US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 17 for "Automated participation of solid state drives in activities involving proof of space" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,082, issued on March 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Automated participation of solid state drives in activities involving proof of space" was invented by Joseph Harold Steinmetz (Loomis, Calif.) and Luca Bert (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus with a solid state drive (SSD) having firmware to farm proof of space plots. The SSD has a communication interface configured to receive at least read commands and write commands from an external host system. The SSD has memory cells formed on at least one integrated circuit die, and a processing device configured to control executions of...