US Patent Issued to Ecolab USA on Aug. 5 for "Product dispenser holder with compliance module" (Minnesota, New York, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,711, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Product dispenser holder with compliance module" was invented by Nicholas Joseph Steinmetz (St Paul, Minn.), Jeffrey Rospierski (Alden, N.Y.), Sarah E. Johnson (St Paul, Minn.), Viktor Slobodyan (Burnsville, Minn.) and David L. Snodgrass (Stuart, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product dispenser holder comprises a dispenser holder body configured to receive a product dispenser that stores a supply of a product to be dispensed, an actuation sensor that senses actuations of the product dispenser, and an actuation button, such that when an actuation force ...