ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,050, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Milkshake Technology Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Photonic implementation of keys update and hash generation for digital currency transactions" was invented by Bicky A. Marquez (Kingston, Canada), Bhavin J. Shastri (Kingston, Canada) and Douglas H. Wightman (Kingston, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a photonic implementation of a processor for keys update and hash generation for digital currency (e.g., bitcoin) transactions. The processor includes a first photonic circuit and a second photonic circuit coupled to the first photonic circuit...