US Patent Issued to BASF on Nov. 4 for "Ecological mining using at least one printing device for proof-of-work" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,132, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Ecological mining using at least one printing device for proof-of-work" was invented by Lothar Seidemann (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Marie Christin Jahn (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Holger Kai Peter Jelich (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for proof-of-work for generating and validating a block of a blockchain using at least one printing device is proposed. The printing device is configured for generating at least one digital image depending on a printer control setting. The method ...