A newly granted patent for "Systems and Methods for Energy Crowdsourcing and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading" has been awarded to inventors Dallas-based Jianhui Wang and Ahmad Fayez Taha, Shen Wang (both based in San Antonio). Assigned to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System and Southern Methodist University, the patent outlines a system that enables distributed energy resources to be traded peer-to-peer across a power network, using forecasts and optimal power flow to schedule delivery. [Source images: USPTO Patent #12278491, Fig. 1; background by Nadya So/iStock]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
AT&T Intellectual Property has been granted U.S. patent #12095813 for a system that detects homoglyph attacks, invented by Antoine Diffloth, Natalie Gilbert, and Sundaresan Manoharan. The system uses convolutional and siamese neural networks to identify malicious domain name variations, where visually similar characters from different alphabets (like 'O' vs. '0' or 'l' vs. 'I') are used to deceive users. This helps businesses safeguard their protected domain names from cyber threats. [Source image: Dragon Claws / iStock]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of August 27, with a total of 122 patents granted.
Illustration of a user interface for Bank of America's Chatbot Co-Pilot, designed for seamless integration between AI and human agents to enhance customer service efficiency. [Image via USPTO: U.S. Patent No. US 11,893,356 B1, Figure 5]