US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 29 for "System and method for personal protective equipment article" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,209, issued on July 29, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"System and method for personal protective equipment article" was invented by Darin K. Thompson (Huntersville, N.C.), Craig M. Parkulo (Midland, N.C.) and David A. Amero (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for use with a personal protective equipment (PPE) article includes a memory configured to store a user identification associated with a user of the PPE article. The system further includes a safety module configured to selectively generate an alert signal based on a motion status of the user of the PPE article. The system f...