ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,072, issued on May 27.

"Hand hygiene monitoring and user reinforcement at an intelligent hand hygiene device" was invented by Aldo Ivan Novelo Ascencio (Zapopan, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide hand hygiene compliance data at an intelligent hand hygiene device. The system detects that a user is in proximity to the hand hygiene device, then matches the user to one or more user profiles within the system. The system then detects that at least one hand of the user has been placed under a dispensing component of the hand hygiene device, and instructs the dispensing component to dispense hand sanitizer. T...