ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,584, issued on June 16, was assigned to KING KHALID UNIVERSITY (Abha, Saudi Arabia) and SHAQRA UNIVERSITY (Shaqra, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for privacy-preserving electric-vehicle charging using artificial intelligence integrated blockchain and homomorphic encryption" was invented by Mashael Mohammed Asiri (Abha, Saudi Arabia), Someah Alangari (Aldawadmi, Saudi Arabia) and Amjad Aldweesh (Shaqra, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a privacy-preserving EV charging authorization and billing system, and a method for the same. The proposed system is configured to integrate permissioned b...