ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,725, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Advanced Input Systems (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho).
"Hygiene compliance data channel" was invented by Benjamin John Medeiros (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho), Mitchell S. Butzer (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho), Bret Thomas Stewart (Rathdrum, Idaho), Brett Harned (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) and Darrell Lee Janke (Spokane Valley, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of securing sensitive data and hygiene compliance data may include receiving a first input and determining whether the first input is associated with a cleaning instance of one or more portions of a computing device. Based at least in part on the first i...