Abstract: A method of managing an inventory of household products through virtual storage, such as in a virtual refrigerator, freezer, pantry, using electronic devices such as a smart phone. The virtual storage includes at least one of a description of each product in the virtual storage; the date each product was purchased; the expiration date of each product; and the freshness level of each product, including whether each product is still fresh, needs to be used within a certain time period, or needs to be thrown out. Related features include generation of shopping lists, coupons and recipes for a consumer based on the products in virtual storage or depleted therefrom.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 19, 2011
Publication date:
April 26, 2012
Applicant:
S. C. Johnson, Inc.
Inventors:
Robert R. Turvey, Jose Porchia, Rishabh Singh, Imtiaz A. Musaliar, Rox-Anne R. Klemetsen
Abstract: An array of self-adhesive cleaning products, the array having a first self-adhesive cleaning product, the product being a gel, and a second self-adhesive cleaning product, the second product being a solid.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 4, 2010
Date of Patent:
April 5, 2011
Assignee:
S.C. Johnson, Inc
Inventors:
Michael E. Klinkhammer, Russell B. Wortley, Michelle C. Dauchy