US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Nov. 18 for "Personal protective equipment safety system using contextual information from industrial control systems" (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,391, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Personal protective equipment safety system using contextual information from industrial control systems" was invented by Steven T. Awiszus (Woodbury, Minn.), Michael G. Wurm (Waukesha, Wis.), David R. Stein (White Bear Lake, Minn.) and Johannes P.M. Kusters (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system includes an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) that includes a communication component; an industrial controller device that is configured to control an industrial device and includes a communication componen...