US Patent Issued on Feb. 3 for "Apparatus and methods for hygiene monitoring in restaurants and grocery superstores" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,046, issued on Feb. 3.

"Apparatus and methods for hygiene monitoring in restaurants and grocery superstores" was invented by Arian Shoari (San Diego) and Mona Komeijani (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes methods and apparatus for hygiene monitoring in hospitals and drug stores. One sub-system use a combination of radio frequency tags attached to the staff, RF tag readers and infrared/proximity/motion/microphone/touch sensors installed over the faucet and dispenser to monitor if the staff wash their hands properly after going to the restroom. The forth sub-system automatically generate drug expiring lab...