ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,218, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fine-grained bitcoin engine deactivation for yield recovery, performance, and/or power management" was invented by Vikram Suresh (Portland, Ore.), Tao Zhou (Oceanside, Calif.), Shashank Shekhar (San Jose, Calif.), Amitkumar Patel (San Jose, Calif.) and Sanu Mathew (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus relating to techniques utilizing fine-grained bitcoin engine deactivation for yield recovery, performance, and/or power management are described. In an embodiment, a configurable compute tile comprising a plurality of cryptocurrency ...