US Patent Issued to Ergonomics International on March 18 for "System for an epidemiological approach to musculoskeletal risk determination and prediction of ergonomic risks, physical demand performance levels, occupational health monitoring and environmental, health, safety and sustainability modeling" (Kansas, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,988, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ergonomics International LLC (Olathe, Kan.).

"System for an epidemiological approach to musculoskeletal risk determination and prediction of ergonomic risks, physical demand performance levels, occupational health monitoring and environmental, health, safety and sustainability modeling" was invented by Samuel Bradbury (Santa Fe, N.M.) and Mark Heidebrecht (Olathe, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A worksite risk analysis and documentation system and method defines, captures, categorizing, and documents, while analyzing functional physical demands of a plurality of jobs, tasks, body movemen...