US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Aug. 25 for "Weighing system and method for refillable containers" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,769, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Weighing system and method for refillable containers" was invented by Kevin Cartwright (Halesowen, Great Britain) and Paul Hines (Birmingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weighing system and method for refillable containers. A control system includes one or more processors and at least one memory configured to store user data associated with a user, the user data includes biometric data indicative of a biometric identifier of the user and container data indicative of an empty container weight. The control system is configured to: rec...