ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,529, issued on June 17, was assigned to Wayne Fueling Systems LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Systems and methods for secure communication" was invented by Weiming Tang (Austin, Texas) and James M. Brewer (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, fast and secure communication can be achieved (e.g., in a fueling environment payment system) with systems and methods that validate an authentication request based on one or more pre-validated cryptographic keys."

The patent was filed on Sept. 14, 2021, under Application No. 17/474,158.

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