US 12,242,997 B2
System and a process for monitoring and verifying bunker fuel exchange between marine vessels
Alistair Cross, Hermance (CH); and Tyler Baron, Bursins (CH)
Assigned to ADP Clear Pte Ltd., Singapore (SG)
Filed by ADP Clear Pte Ltd., Singapore (SG); and ADP Clear Pte Ltd., Singapore (SG)
Filed on Aug. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/879,606.
Claims priority of application No. 21189240 (EP), filed on Aug. 2, 2021; and application No. 10202108445U (SG), filed on Aug. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0034271 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G01F 15/063 (2022.01); B63B 27/34 (2006.01); G01F 1/56 (2006.01); G01N 9/32 (2006.01); G06Q 10/083 (2023.01); G08C 17/02 (2006.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC G06Q 10/083 (2013.01) [G08C 17/02 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for monitoring and verifying a delivery process during which a fluid is delivered, via a bunker line, from a supplying marine vessel to a receiving marine vessel, the system comprising:
a data capture device configured to capture, from one or more sensors at a bunker line, data indicating one or more parameters related to a delivery process for a delivery of a fluid from a supplying marine vessel to a receiving marine vessel via the bunker line; and
a monitoring unit configured to be operably connected to the data capture device to receive the data related to the delivery process, the monitoring unit comprising:
at least one processor configured to generate an electronic record comprising at least part of the received data indicating the one or more parameters and information related to the delivery process; and
at least one memory to store the electronic record and the received data indicating the one or more parameters and information related to the delivery process;
a private local area network comprising:
a first wireless transceiver configured to be operably connected to the monitoring unit, the first wireless transceiver being configured to provide wireless access to the monitoring unit by one or more wireless communications devices of one or more authorized first users on the supplying marine vessel;
a second wireless transceiver configured to be operably connected to the first wireless transceiver and configured to provide a point-to-point wireless link between the supplying marine vessel and the receiving marine vessel; and
a third wireless transceiver, for location on the receiving marine vessel, configured to provide wireless access to the second wireless transceiver by one or more wireless communication devices of one or more authorized second users on the receiving marine vessel via the point-to-point wireless link;
the processor being further configured to generate a dashboard, accessible to a first authorized user and a second authorized user having remote access to the private local area network, the dashboard being configured to present the electronic record to the first authorized user and the second authorized user and to automatically verify the delivery process responsive to receiving a first input indicating an electronic signature of the first authorized user and a second input indicating an electronic signature of the second authorized user.