US Patent Issued to GOJO Industries on July 1 for "Method and system for using data packet beaconing to determine compliance with protocols" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,240, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOJO Industries Inc. (Akron, Ohio).

"Method and system for using data packet beaconing to determine compliance with protocols" was invented by Mark Adam Bullock (Wooster, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for determining a time-length of an action are provided. For example, a first data packet, of a plurality of data packets, may be received from a beacon. The first data packet may be associated with a first event and may comprise a first counter value. A second data packet, of the plurality of data packets, may be received from the beacon....