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Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 21, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Reilly Howell, Atlanta, GA (US);

Stephen Becker, Cumming, GA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/20 (2023.01); A47K 10/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/20 (2013.01); A47K 10/32 (2013.01); A47K 2010/3226 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems and apparatus for operating a dispenser system including receiving product usage information and battery status from each of a plurality of dispensers, determining expected product depletion dates for each of the plurality of dispensers based on the respective product usage information; determining expected battery depletion dates for each of the plurality of dispensers based on the respective battery status; determining respective dispenser tasks for one or more of the plurality of dispensers that specify tasks a dispenser is responsible to perform over a given time period to cause, for each of one or more of the plurality of dispensers, the respective expected product depletion date and expected battery depletion date to be within a threshold range of one another, and communicating the respective dispenser tasks to the one or more of the plurality of dispensers.


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