ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,328, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Hierarchical combination of artificial intelligence and optimization for the operation of power systems" was invented by Masood Parvania (Salt Lake City), Mohammad Mehdi Hosseini (Salt Lake City), Luis Fernando Rodriguez Garcia (Salt Lake City) and Avishan Bagherinezhad (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for real-time coordinated operation of power distribution systems and electric vehicles identifies a set of integrated hybrid resources (IHRs), wherein each IHR within the set of IHRs comprises one or more o...