ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,706, issued on April 21, was assigned to Wayne Fueling Systems LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Conducting fuel dispensing transactions" was invented by Timothy M. Weston (Cedar Park, Texas) and Weiming Tang (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fuel dispensing transactions may be accomplished by a variety of systems and techniques. A fuel dispensing device may include a payment module, a data entry device, and a customer display. The payment module may receive a first communication from a point of sale device requesting an encrypted response and receive a second communication from the point of sale device requesting an unencrypted res...