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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2019
Applicant:
Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Inventors:
Frederick J. Williams, Jr., Cumming, GA (US);
Reilly Howell, Atlanta, GA (US);
Babak R. Ghazi, Smyrna, GA (US);
Assignee:
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/24 (2006.01); G01J 5/00 (2022.01); H04N 5/33 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/245 (2013.01); G01J 5/0025 (2013.01); G01J 5/0066 (2013.01); H04N 5/33 (2013.01); G01J 2005/0077 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system having a washroom controller configured to communicate with one or more hygiene dispensers in the washroom; a thermal sensor configured detect thermal events at the entrance and communicate data describing the thermal events to the washroom controller; and a data processing apparatus configured to access the data from the washroom controller and analyze the data to determine a number of thermal events over a given time period and a number of dispenses from the at least one of the one or more hygiene dispensers.