US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on March 25 for "System and method for mining digital currency in a blockchain network" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,939, issued on March 25, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"System and method for mining digital currency in a blockchain network" was invented by David A Carlson (Haslet, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit and corresponding method enable mining for digital currency in a blockchain network. The circuit comprises a controller and at least one partial hash engine that (i) implements a hash function, partially, to compute a partial hash digest of a final hash digest for a block header of a block candidate and (ii) generates a notification based on determining that the partial hash digest satisfies a criteri...