US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Dec. 16 for "Identification of workers using personal protective equipment and worker movement characteristic analysis" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,711, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Identification of workers using personal protective equipment and worker movement characteristic analysis" was invented by Marie D. Manner (St. Paul, Minn.) and Kiran S. Kanukurthy (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method of identifying a worker, a system that performs the method, or non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that performs the method. The method can include acquiring, by a computer having one or more processors, a video of at least part of a worker from a camera sys...