ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,008, issued on June 24, was assigned to AKKO GROUP INC. (Mill Valley, Calif.).
"Protective apparatus presence detector" was invented by Jared Brier (Mill Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method comprises: detecting, with at least one processor of a device, a presence of a protective apparatus associated with an item; generating, with the at least one processor, a log including data indicating the detected presence; and storing or transferring, with the at least one processor, the log to a server computer or other device."
The patent was filed on Dec. 17, 2021, under Application No. 17/555,123.
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