US Patent Issued to 7-ELEVEN on Sept. 23 for "Anomaly detection and controlling fuel dispensing operations using fuel volume determinations" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,100, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to 7-ELEVEN INC. (Irving, Texas).

"Anomaly detection and controlling fuel dispensing operations using fuel volume determinations" was invented by Boonchai Matthew Ragan (Lewisville, Texas), Sravan Kumar Ayyappa Akula (Aubrey, Texas), Joshua Michael Rothenberg (Dallas), Jake Ylli Hoxha (Farmers Branch, Texas), Srikanth Gandra (Frisco, Texas) and Scott Albert (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system determines that a fuel dispensing operation may be anomalous. In response, the system accesses fuel inventory data that indicates fuel levels in a fuel tank during a time period. The system dete...