US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 8 for "Fall-protection apparatus with multimodal inductive sensing" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,528, issued on July 8, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Fall-protection apparatus with multimodal inductive sensing" was invented by Jonathan J. Lepp (Eagan, Minn.), Scott E. Brigham (Maplewood, Minn.), Nathan W. Safe (Red Wing, Minn.) and Stephen D. Shaver (Cottage Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fall-protection apparatus comprising at least one connector that comprises a resonant-frequency-shifting inductive sensing unit that is configured to detect whether the connector appears to be connected to a first item and is further configured to detect whether the connector appears to be connec...