ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,340, issued on April 29, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).
"Refuelling system for motor vehicles" was invented by Thomas Garbe (Wolfsburg, Germany), Jens Staufenbiel (Lage, Germany) and Markus Jakob (Coburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refueling system for motor vehicles, that includes a motor vehicle with a first communication interface and with a control unit, as well as a refueling installation, a second communication interface, which has a communication connection to the first communication interface for the transmission of data, as well as a tank with a fuel. The refueling installation has a sensor ...