US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Nov. 11 for "Industrial device to personal protective equipment alert delivery" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,381, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Industrial device to personal protective equipment alert delivery" was invented by Brian J. Swift (Woodbury, Minn.), Gary R. Stephany (Stillwater, Minn.) and Michael G. Wurm (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) and an industrial controller device configured to control an industrial device. The system includes a first computing device and a second computing device. The first computing device, in response to detecting an industrial controller event, wirelessly broadcasts ...