US Patent Issued to GOJO Industries on March 17 for "Hand-held sprayers with key readers and keyed refill units" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,415, issued on March 17, was assigned to GOJO Industries Inc. (Akron, Ohio).

"Hand-held sprayers with key readers and keyed refill units" was invented by Jackson W. Wegelin (Stow, Ohio) and Nick E. Ciavarella (Seven Hills, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary hand-held sprayer systems are shown and described herein. An exemplary hand-held sprayer system includes a container for holding fluid. The container has a neck. A closure connects to the neck. A fluid conduit extends from the closure to a dispensing wand. The dispensing wand is configured to be held in a hand to be moved about while dispensing fluid. A data tag is sec...