US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Sept. 29 for "Apparatus and method for detecting a dispensing event in a bulk product dispensing system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,236, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Apparatus and method for detecting a dispensing event in a bulk product dispensing system" was invented by Kevin Cartwright (Halesowen, Great Britain), Ian Taylor (Kenilworth, Great Britain), Timothy Robert Lowe (Ratcliffe Culey, Great Britain) and Hugh Connell (Alcester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for detecting a dispensing event in a bulk product dispensing system includes: a sensor arrangement for detecting flow of product through a detection zone, the sensor arrangement comprising a transmitter module a receiver mo...