ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,197, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Wayne Fueling Systems LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Secure communications between fueling station components" was invented by Vinod Krishnappa (Bengaluru Karnataka, India), Om Prakash Gupta (Bengaluru Karnataka, India), Harish Veeravalli (Bengaluru Karnataka, India), Gautham Ramamurthy (Bengaluru Karnataka, India) and Henry Fieglein (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A selection of a fueling station item, graphically depicted on a display of a fuel dispenser and corresponding to an available fueling station product, can be received by at least one data processor of a fuel dispenser. A two d...