ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,348, issued on May 26, was assigned to ryd GmbH (Munich).
"Monitoring refueling operations" was invented by Klaus Esser (Munich), Oliver Goetz (Grafelfing, Germany) and Johannes Martens (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting fuel fraud when refueling a vehicle at a filling station comprises obtaining, in conjunction with a current refueling operation in which the vehicle is refueled at the filling station, current refueling information, determining if there is a mismatch between the obtained current refueling information and historical refueling information which is based on a plurality of past refueling operati...