10 patents
Utility
Fuel dispenser with fraud resistant flow control valve
14 Nov 23
A flow control valve is provided including a valve aperture in a valve body configured to convey fuel from an inlet to an outlet, a valve element configured to close the valve aperture to block flow of the fuel, a valve actuator configured to shift the position of the valve element between a closed position and an open position, and an antifraud circuit.
Joseph Daniel Long
Filed: 7 Feb 22
Utility
Fuel dispenser anti-skimming input device
4 Jul 23
Systems and methods for detecting fraud.
Howard Myers, Giovanni Carapelli
Filed: 30 Jul 15
Utility
Fuel dispenser with power distribution system
25 Oct 22
A fuel dispenser includes a power distribution system having an alternating current (AC) power supply and an AC to direct current (DC) power converter configured to convert a portion of the AC power to DC power for one or more DC peripheral components associated with the fuel dispenser.
Giovanni Carapelli, Joseph Long, Wayne McNinch
Filed: 14 Sep 20
Utility
Fuel dispenser having selectively viewable secondary display
25 Oct 22
A fuel dispenser comprises a housing enclosing fluid handling components including a fluid flow meter.
Scott D. Slabbekoorn, Felix La Pietra, Anny Liao, Edward Asbell Payne
Filed: 6 Dec 19
Utility
System and method for selective encryption of input data during a retail transaction
4 Oct 22
A retail environment having retail terminals with data entry point devices selectively encrypts input received by the data entry point devices and passes the encrypted data to a security module.
Philip A. Robertson, Rodger K. Williams, Timothy M. Weston
Filed: 12 Oct 18
Utility
Fuel dispenser utilizing tokenized user guidance and prompting for secure payment
19 Jul 22
A fuel dispenser comprises fuel flow piping defining a flow path from a source of fuel toward a fueling nozzle.
Rodger K. Williams, Edward A. Payne
Filed: 12 Jun 17
Utility
Blending apparatus and method
24 May 22
A method of delivering a selected fuel product having a selected octane level to an operator from a fuel dispenser including a blend manifold, a fuel nozzle, and a fuel hose extending therebetween, including the steps of determining a first volume of a first fuel that is retained in the fuel hose upon completion of a first fueling event, determining a first octane level of the first volume of the first fuel, determining a second volume of a second fuel having a second octane level, and delivering the first fuel volume and the second fuel volume to the operator during a second fueling event, wherein a total volume of fuel equaling the first volume of the first fuel and the second volume of the second fuel has a total octane level that falls within a predetermined limit of the selected octane level of the selected fuel product.
Gordon W. Johnson, Christopher Adam Oldham, Michael C. Liebal
Filed: 16 Dec 20
Utility
Fuel dispenser with fraud resistant flow control valve
8 Feb 22
A flow control valve is provided including a valve aperture in a valve body configured to convey fuel from an inlet to an outlet, a valve element configured to close the valve aperture to block flow of the fuel, a valve actuator configured to shift the position of the valve element between a closed position and an open position, and an antifraud circuit.
Joseph Daniel Long
Filed: 14 Feb 17
Utility
Systems and methods for alternative fuel life-cycle tracking and validation
21 Dec 21
A method for alternative fuel life-cycle tracking includes electronically receiving, at a remote server, fuel data of fuel in a first container.
Rodger K. Williams, Edward A. Payne
Filed: 6 Dec 16
Utility
Fuel dispenser alternative content control based on monitored fueling transaction phase
7 Dec 21
In an example embodiment, a card reader in dispenser (CRIND) is provided including a processor and a memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer programming code configured to, with the processor, cause the CRIND to receive one or more transaction messages from a forecourt controller or a peripheral device associated with a fuel dispenser, compare the one or more transaction messages to one or more message sequences associated with transaction phases of a fuel dispenser, determine a transaction phase of the fuel dispenser based on the comparison of the one or more transaction messages with the one or more message sequences, and cause feature processing circuitry to provide selected alternative media content to a user interface of the fuel dispenser based on the determined transaction phase.
Giovanni Carapelli
Filed: 30 May 18
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