US Patent Issued to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide on Sept. 1 for "Dispensing device having improved performance" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,482, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).

"Dispensing device having improved performance" was invented by Vannarak DeMonteiro (Suwanee, Ga.) and Galdric Marcotte (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device can be configured to be coupled to a product dispenser to provide monitoring functionality for the product dispenser. The monitoring device can include a network gateway microcontroller configured to perform operations. The operations can include establishing a wireless connection with one or more dispenser monitoring devices, each of the one or more dispenser moni...