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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2009
Srinivasan Krishnan, Stamford, CT (US);
Amir Ashkenazi, Hamden, CT (US);
Jomer Lalo Delacruz, Naugatuck, CT (US);
Marc Gregory Ticzon, Stratford, CT (US);
Jonathan Garrett Winn, Fairfield, CT (US);
Jean-marc Dessirier, Stratford, CT (US);
Tobias Christian Trumpp, Milford, CT (US);
Srinivasan Krishnan, Stamford, CT (US);
Amir Ashkenazi, Hamden, CT (US);
Jomer Lalo Delacruz, Naugatuck, CT (US);
Marc Gregory Ticzon, Stratford, CT (US);
Jonathan Garrett Winn, Fairfield, CT (US);
Jean-Marc Dessirier, Stratford, CT (US);
Tobias Christian Trumpp, Milford, CT (US);
Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Abstract
A packaged product and a method for monitoring usage in a consumer test is reported herein. The packaged product includes a bottle having a container body with an open end and a closed end, the open end being formed with a neck and a mouth at a terminus of the neck. A flowable material is held within the container body. A monitoring unit immersed at least partially within the flowable material includes: (1) at least one support rod, the rod contacting the neck thereby inhibiting movement of the monitoring unit; (2) a logger device to sense and record motion of the bottle, the device including a circuit board fitted with at least one computer chip; (3) a retention unit arranged on the support rod inhibiting travel of the logger device relative to the support rod. According to the method of the invention, compliance to a test protocol can be certified through records extracted from the logger unit after evaluation is completed by the consumer.