US Patent Issued to ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG on Sept. 8 for "Data collection and monitoring for hygiene equipment" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,724, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Data collection and monitoring for hygiene equipment" was invented by Hakan Lindstrom (Gothenburg, Sweden), Annie Sporre Thorburn (Ellos, Sweden) and Gunilla Himmelmann (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data collection unit arranged to collect data indicating hygiene equipment status includes a receiving unit configured to receive inbound data from hygiene equipment; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit outbound data directly to a terminal via device-to-device, D2D, communication; wherein the outbound data ...