US Patent Issued to Fleet Spartan on Sept. 30 for "Distributed fuel sentry system with relayed communication" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,288, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Fleet Spartan Inc. (Spring, Texas).

"Distributed fuel sentry system with relayed communication" was invented by Victor Thomas Wilcox Jr. (Tomball, Texas) and Raymond William Benefield Jr. (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel dispensing system includes a fuel tank, a pump that pumps fuel from the fuel tank, and a fuel sentry controlling pumping of the fuel from the fuel tank. The fuel sentry includes a processor, storage storing configuration data, a communication module, and memory operatively coupled to the processor, the storage, and the communication module. The memory incl...