ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,788, issued on May 27, was assigned to Core Scientific Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"System and method for operating computers" was invented by Lawrence Kom (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating computers may include connecting a computer with a proxy computer; obtaining, via the proxy computer, a list of pools compatible with the computer; selecting a pool from the list of pools; obtaining a header for the selected pool; providing, via the proxy computer, the header to the computer; authenticating the computer with a pool computer; performing compute tasks, via the computer, corresponding to the selected pool...