ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,617, issued on June 17, was assigned to KPR U.S. LLC (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Remote monitoring of absorbent article" was invented by Harish Patel (Norforlk, Mass.), Robert Gaines (Lake Saint Louis, Mo.), Vishal Narvekar (Mansfield, Mass.) and Richard Gahan (Wrentham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a sensor system of a patient monitoring system includes a voiding sensor that includes an electrical circuit configured to be transitioned from a first impedance state to a second impedance state in response to a voiding event in an absorbent region of an absorbent article worn by a patient. The sensor system also include...