US Patent Issued to GOJO Industries on April 29 for "Dispensers, dispenser systems and refill units configured for autonomous firmware/software updates" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,141, issued on April 29, was assigned to GOJO Industries Inc. (Akron, Ohio).

"Dispensers, dispenser systems and refill units configured for autonomous firmware/software updates" was invented by Shelby Jay Buell (Medina, Ohio) and Mark A. Bullock (Wooster, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments of dispensing systems, dispensers, refill units, methods for autonomously updating firmware and/or software in dispensers are disclosed herein. An exemplary dispenser includes a dispenser housing, an object sensor, a near field communications reader, a power source, a processor and a memory. First logic is stored in the memory...