ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,927, issued on June 17, was assigned to 7-ELEVEN INC. (Irving, Texas).

"Anomaly detection and controlling operations of fuel dispensing terminal during operations" was invented by Boonchai Matthew Ragan (Lewisville, Texas), Sravan Kumar Ayyappa Akula (Aubrey, Texas), Joshua Michael Rothenberg (Dallas), Jake Ylli Hoxha (Farmers Branch, Texas), Deviprasad Mulluru (Flower Mound, Texas), Srikanth Gandra (Frisco, Texas), Scott Albert (Dallas) and Srikanth Subramanian (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system detects a fuel dispensing operation that indicates fuel is being dispensed from the fuel dispensing terminal. The system...