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Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024

Filed:

Apr. 25, 2019
Applicant:

Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);

Inventors:

Cleary E. Mahaffey, Canton, GA (US);

Stephen Becker, Cumming, GA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47K 10/32 (2006.01); A47K 5/12 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47K 10/32 (2013.01); A47K 5/1217 (2013.01); G06F 9/4818 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06316 (2013.01); A47K 2010/3226 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system comprising a plurality of dispensers each configured to dispense a respective hygienic consumable product during a dispense operation and each including a processor and memory; a distributed computing program configured to receive data defining a computational task comprising work streams and generate data assigning the work streams to at least two of the plurality of dispensers, wherein each of the at least two of the plurality of dispensers are configured to use their respective processor and memory to work on their respective work streams; and a data processing apparatus configured to run the distributed computing program.


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