ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,171, issued on June 16, was assigned to KING KHALID UNIVERSITY (Abha, Saudi Arabia) and SHAQRA UNIVERSITY (Shaqra, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for artificial intelligence driven blockchain framework supporting secure scalable smart city development" was invented by Mashael Mohammed Asiri (Abha, Saudi Arabia) and Someah Alangari (Aldawadmi, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to system and method for artificial intelligence driven blockchain framework supporting secure scalable smart city development. The present invention relates to a smart-city telemetry system device and an AI-driven comp...