Patent 7138585 was granted and assigned to Sunbeam Products on November, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed is a bath scale for measuring a user's weight having a weight display and a message display driven by a detection-and-display system adapted to provide through the message display one or more substantially non-deductive messages to the user of the bath scale that instruct the user in plain language how to use the scale.