ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,235, issued on March 18, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Remote sensing system and method for article of personal protective equipment" was invented by Jeffrey L. Landis (Charlotte, N.C.), Jason M. Patterson (Monroe, N.C.), Darin K. Thompson (Huntersville, N.C.) and Eric J. Bassani (Denver, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a remote sensing system. The remote sensing system includes an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) including a display panel configured to be viewed by a wearer of the article of PPE. The remote sensing system further includes a plurali...