US Patent Issued to Kohler on May 6 for "Systems and method for closed loop tracking of hand hygiene compliance" (British, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,648, issued on May 6, was assigned to Kohler Co. (Kohler, Wis.).

"Systems and method for closed loop tracking of hand hygiene compliance" was invented by Sudhi R. Sinha (Mumbai, India), Orkun Onur (Greenville, S.C.) and Andrew Baines (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for tracking hand hygiene in a bathroom includes at least a radio and a controller. The radio is configured to receive a direct connection probe from a mobile device. The controller is configured to receive sensor data associated with hand hygiene and match the sensor data associated with hand hygiene with an identifier for the mobile...