US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Aug. 5 for "Hearing protector with sensor module and method of retrofitting a hearing protector with a sensor module" (Swedish, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,996, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Hearing protector with sensor module and method of retrofitting a hearing protector with a sensor module" was invented by Henning T. Urban (Kuehlungsborn, Germany), Jonas A. Nilsson (Varnamo, Sweden), Abel Gladstone Mangam (Varnamo, Sweden), Caroline M. Ylitalo (Stillwater, Minn.), William Bedingham (Woodbury, Minn.), Erik O. Levholt (Odeshog, Sweden) and Patrick R. T. Hjort (Varnamo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a hearing protector (10) with a sensor module (30) having a module sensor (32). The sensor mod...