ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,334, issued on March 11, was assigned to SHENZHEN MICROBT ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Clock circuits, computing chips, hash boards and data processing devices" was invented by Nan Li (Guangdong, China), Zuoxing Yang (Guangdong, China), Zhijun Fan (Guangdong, China), Haifeng Guo (Guangdong, China) and Chao Xu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to clock circuits, computing chips, hash boards and data processing devices. A clock circuit comprises M stages of clock drive circuits that are connected in series, M being an integer that is no less than 2, wherein N inverte...