Patent ID: 8196809

Claim:
A system for associating an absorbent article with at least one of the identity and the location of a user of said absorbent article, comprising: an absorbent article, machine-readable information concerning at least one of the identity and the location of a user of the absorbent article, wherein the system comprises machine-readable information identifying the absorbent article, a reader to read the information identifying the absorbent article and the information concerning at least one of the identity and the location of the user of the absorbent article, a memory that is arranged to store the information identifying the absorbent article and the information concerning at least one of the identity and the location of the user of the absorbent article in a form such that on retrieval of information from the memory, the information concerning the absorbent article is automatically associated with the information concerning at least one of the identity and location of the user of the absorbent article; wherein the system comprises means for associating the status indication from the machine-readable sensor with the information concerning at least one of the identity and the location of the user of the absorbent article or the information identifying the absorbent article; and a processor arranged to notify a caregiver of a status of the absorbent article including the at least one of the identity and location of the user of the absorbent article.