US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Oct. 7 for "Personal protective equipment for navigation and map generation within a visually obscured environment" (Minnesota, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,990, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Personal protective equipment for navigation and map generation within a visually obscured environment" was invented by John M. Kruse (Minneapolis), Elisa J. Collins (Oakdale, Minn.), Nicholas T. Gabriel (Grand Rapids, Minn.), Richard J. Sabacinski (Charlotte, N.C.), Darin K Thompson (Huntersville, N.C.), Adam C. Nyland (St. Paul, Minn.) and Samuel J. Fahey (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a personal protective equipment (PPE) configured to be worn by an agent. The PPE includes a sensor assembly comprising a radar d...