ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,425, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Drager Safety AG & Co. KGaA (Lubeck, Germany).

"System and process for remotely monitoring a workplace" was invented by Thielo Hammer (Lubeck, Germany), Simon Helbig (Lubeck, Germany), Jurgen Langer (Lubeck, Germany), Michael Kreilmeier (Lubeck, Germany), Georg Piewald (Lubeck, Germany) and Mohamed Ibrahim (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a process enable a workplace (A.1, A.2) to be monitored remotely. A monitoring unit for the workplace includes a camera (2.1, 2.2, 2.3), a gas measuring device (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4) and a workplace computer (3.1, 3.2). A communicatio...