US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Nov. 11 for "Personal protective equipment communication systems and methods" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,903, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Personal protective equipment communication systems and methods" was invented by Vijay K. Gidla (Varnamo, Sweden), Magnus K. Petersson (Halmstad, Sweden), Henrik J. Sjoman (Skillingaryd, Sweden), David L. Albean (Indianapolis), Paul D. Henry (Carmel, Ind.) and James L. Fiocca (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A short-range communication system is presented that includes a system control unit and a personal protective equipment device. The system control unit includes a network creator configured to create a short-range network on a wir...