US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 22 for "Personal protective equipment (PPE) with analytical stream processing for safety event detection" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,984, issued on July 22, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Personal protective equipment (PPE) with analytical stream processing for safety event detection" was invented by Steven T. Awiszus (Woodbury, Minn.), Eric C. Lobner (Woodbury, Minn.), Michael G. Wurm (Waukesha, Wis.), Kiran S. Kanukurthy (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Jia Hu (Mounds View, Minn.), Matthew J. Blackford (Hastings, Minn.), Keith G. Mattson (Woodbury, Minn.), Ronald D. Jesme (Plymouth, Minn.) and Nathan J. Anderson (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system includes an article of personal protective equipment...