US Patent Issued to Behavioral Safety Products on Dec. 2 for "Wall-mountable and ligature-resistant manually-operated liquid/gel dispenser" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,740, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Behavioral Safety Products LLC (Athens, Ga.).

"Wall-mountable and ligature-resistant manually-operated liquid/gel dispenser" was invented by Mark Mendes (Good Hope, Ga.) and Cheri Skinner (Watkinsville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ligature-resistant liquid/gel dispenser includes a rear housing with a mounting plane surface for securing the dispenser to a wall. The dispenser has a front cover is rotatably coupled and lockable to the rear housing and has an aperture for receiving a pushbutton actuator, and a dispenser pump assembly including a reservoir for storing the liquid or gel. The d...