US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on Jan. 27 for "Lockout/tagout system and method including multi-user lockout device with electronic locking and wireless control interface" (Missouri, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. RE50,769, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Lockout/tagout system and method including multi-user lockout device with electronic locking and wireless control interface" was invented by Robert Stephen Douglass (Wildwood, Mo.), Vinicius M. Petroni (Wildwood, Mo.), Matthew G. Mohr (Wildwood, Mo.) and John P. Stampfel (Sewickley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lockout/tagout devices are configured to receive multi-user, electronically generated locking and unlocking commands over wireless interfaces to realize lockout safety chains of a desired length to assure worker safety in an industrial system. ...