US Patent Issued to SAFEWAY on May 20 for "Methods and systems for robotic testing of fuel point of sale terminals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,744, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAFEWAY INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for robotic testing of fuel point of sale terminals" was invented by Mike Friedel (Pleasanton, Calif.), Martha Crosley (Pleasanton, Calif.), Joshua Wilber (Pleasanton, Calif.), Bruce Lang (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Subashree Narasimhan (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing fuel to consumers at fuel pumping stations. The method comprises installing a given version of a software update in a fuel pump simulator; testing the given version of the software update in the fuel pump simulator by an automated fuel pum...