ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,518, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Wayne Fueling Systems LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Slot based allocation for fueling" was invented by Aneesh Maria Stephen (Tamil Nadu, India), Ravi Kumar Kattimani (Karnataka, India) and Anil Kumar Peddireddy (Lombard, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, data characterizing fueling station user's location relative to a fueling station, a time slot of availability of a fuel dispenser at the fueling station, and a configuration of the fuel dispenser for fuel dispensing operations can be received. An arrival time of the fueling station user at the fueling station can be determined based on ...