Patents by Inventor Carl R. Jacobs

Carl R. Jacobs has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Dispensing system and method with radio frequency customer identification
    Patent number: 7640185
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a fuel dispenser with radio frequency customer identification capabilities. The system and method determines whether a transponder containing customer identification data is within range of a dispenser, the dispenser requiring activation by the customer to initiate a transaction and including a reader associated therewith for emitting radio frequency signals within the dispenser range, and for receiving customer identification data from the transponder responsive to the emitted radio frequency signals received by the transponder. When the transponder is within range of the dispenser, an in-range indication is provided to the customer. A determination is made whether the dispenser has been activated by the customer following a determination that the transponder is within the dispenser range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignees: Dresser, Inc., ExxonMobile Oil Corporation, Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph August Giordano, Samuel S. Hendricks, Carl R. Jacobs, Thomas L. Mays, Don Charles McCall, Geeta Bholanath Nadkarni, Karen Scott Guthrie, Lloyd G. Sargent, Jeffrey L. Turner, Deborah T. Wilkins, Bernard Barink, Thomas Josef Flaxl, Andreas Hagl, George A. Holodak, Loek d'Hont, Scott D. Larson, Robert A. Lorentzen, Joseph Pearson, Anne Tip, Alex J. Weyer
  • Fuel dispensing system for providing discounted services based upon customer identity
    Publication number: 20030130891
    Abstract: A fuel dispensing system that determines the identity of a customer and then provides the customer with certain types of discounted and/or free services based upon the identity of the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: Dresser, Inc.
    Inventor: Carl R. Jacobs
  • Fuel dispenser that displays information based upon customer identity
    Publication number: 20030130965
    Abstract: A fuel dispenser that displays information based upon the identity of the customer includes a user interface that permits the fuel dispenser to determine the identity of the customer. Once the fuel dispenser has determined the identity of the customer, the fuel dispenser displays information on a display that is customized as a function of the determined identity of the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: Dresser, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl R. Jacobs, Jacqueline Collins
  • Therapeutic dispenser
    Patent number: D731046
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Inventors: James W. Shondel, Carl R. Jacobs, Patricia Andress