US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, PoWx on Dec. 9 for "Photonic blockchain based on optical proof-of-work" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,316, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) and PoWx inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Photonic blockchain based on optical proof-of-work" was invented by Sunil K. Pai (San Jose, Calif.), David A. B. Miller (Stanford, Calif.), Olav Solgaard (Stanford, Calif.), Shanhui Fan (Stanford, Calif.), Michael Dubrovsky (Somerville, Mass.), Bogdan Penkovsky (Strassbourg, France) and Maynard Marshall Ball Jr. (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for combined digital and optical processing of a cryptocurrency data block includes a digital processor that computes...