ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,535, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Inveniam Capital Partners Inc. (New York).

"RAM hashing in blockchain environments" was invented by Paul Snow (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Blockchain environments may mix-and-match different encryption, difficulty, and/or proof-of-work schemes when mining blockchain transactions. Each encryption, difficulty, and/or proof-of-work scheme may be separate, stand-alone programs, files, or third-party services. Blockchain miners may be agnostic to a particular coin's or network's encryption, difficulty, and/or proof-of-work schemes, thus allowing any blockchain miner to process or mi...