ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,948, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Wayne Fueling Systems LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Associating identification information with visually captured information" was invented by Henry Fieglein (Leander, Texas), Kalpit Singh (Jaipur, India), Rohith Chinnaswamy (RoundRock, Texas) and Hob Hairston (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for associating vehicle identification information with other visually captured information are provided. In general, a system can include a processor configured to receive an image from a camera located at a fueling station. The processor can be configured to apply a...