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Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Vannarak Demonteiro, Suwanee, GA (US);

Galdric Marcotte, Alpharetta, GA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47K 5/12 (2006.01); A47K 10/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47K 5/1217 (2013.01); A47K 10/32 (2013.01); A47K 2010/3226 (2013.01);
Abstract

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 monitoring devices associated with a dispenser. The operations can include obtaining dispenser data from the one or more dispenser monitoring devices via the wireless connection. The operations can include providing the dispenser data via an internet connection to a cloud-based management service.


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