ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,717, issued on July 14, was assigned to Wayne Fueling Systems LLC (Austin, Texas).

"System and method to process transactions at retail fueling stations using a mobile device" was invented by Thomas Sherfey Chittenden Jr. (Pflugerville, Texas), Paul Matthew Kern (Austin, Texas), Bradford Ian Loewy (Austin, Texas) and Sethuraman Subramanian (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing a transaction includes receiving a site location code. Site configuration information corresponding to the received site location code is received from a database. That information includes more product record(s), each correspondi...