US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Nov. 4 for "Self-check for personal protective equipment" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,663, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Self-check for personal protective equipment" was invented by Kiran S. Kanukurthy (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Steven T. Awiszus (Woodbury, Minn.), Eric C. Lobner (Woodbury, Minn.) and Michael G. Wurm (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system includes a plurality of articles of personal protected equipment (PPE) that are each assigned to a particular worker. The system may also include a data hub that detects an input that initiates a broadcast of diagnostic self-check messages; identifies, in response to the input, each ...