ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,821, issued on June 23, was assigned to GOJO Industries Inc. (Akron, Ohio).

"System and method for dispenser management" was invented by Carey Jaros (Akron, Ohio), Tamara Cross (Akron, Ohio), Michael Baluch (Akron, Ohio), Mark Bullock (Akron, Ohio), Jason Slater (Akron, Ohio) and Jackson Wegelin (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. For example, a controller of a dispenser may determine usage data of the dispenser. In association with a replenishment event in which a second refill component mounted to the dispenser is replaced by a first refill component, the ...