ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,227, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).
"Dispensing system" was invented by Reilly Howell (Atlanta) and Stephen Becker (Cumming, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatus for operating a dispenser system including receiving product usage information and battery status from each of a plurality of dispensers, determining expected product depletion dates for each of the plurality of dispensers based on the respective product usage information; determining expected battery depletion dates for each of the plurality of dispensers based on the respective battery status; det...