US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Dec. 9 for "Fall protection equipment having inductive sensor for connection status and control" (Minnesota, Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,389, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Fall protection equipment having inductive sensor for connection status and control" was invented by Anthony J. Nowicki (Woodbury, Minn.), Ronald D. Jesme (Plymouth, Minn.), Judd D. Perner (Missouri City, Texas), Scott E. Brigham (Maplewood, Minn.), Jeffrey T. Keacher (Denver), Mohsen Salehi (Woodbury, Minn.) and Jonathan J. Lepp (Eagan, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for monitoring and controlling fall protection equipment. For example, the techniques of this disclosure may be used to monitor the connection status of...