US 11,889,945 B2
Signal and detection system for pairing products
Peter Zosimadis, Bethesda, MD (US); and Steven Hackney, Bethesda, MD (US)
Assigned to Smart Wave Technologies, Inc., Mounds View, MN (US)
Filed by Smart Wave Technologies, Inc., Mounds View, MN (US)
Filed on Oct. 29, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/667,512.
Application 16/667,512 is a division of application No. 15/310,270, granted, now 11,026,539, previously published as PCT/CA2016/050524, filed on May 6, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/158,414, filed on May 7, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2020/0060467 A1, Feb. 27, 2020
Int. Cl. G06K 7/14 (2006.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01); G06K 7/12 (2006.01); A47J 31/44 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 31/4492 (2013.01) [G06K 7/1413 (2013.01); G06K 19/0614 (2013.01); G06K 7/12 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A dispenser for monitoring the status of a replaceable cartridge within a dispenser wherein the replaceable cartridge has an authorization code readable by the dispenser, the dispenser comprising:
a controller configured to control activation of the dispenser;
a verification system configured to read the authorization code on the replaceable cartridge when the replaceable cartridge is operatively connected to the dispenser;
a cartridge detection system configured to detect if a cartridge is within the dispenser or not present within the dispenser;
and wherein the controller is further configured to:
i) modify activation of the dispenser if the verification system determines an authorized code not configured to a cartridge is present and the cartridge detection system determines a cartridge is not present, and
ii) modify activation of the dispenser if the verification system determines an unauthorized code is present and the cartridge detection system determines a cartridge is present.