Patents by Inventor Samuel S. Hendricks

Samuel S. Hendricks 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