US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 13 for "Preventative workplace injury alerting system utilizing mmwave 5G positional localization" (Virginia, New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,206, issued on May 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Preventative workplace injury alerting system utilizing mmwave 5G positional localization" was invented by Clement Decrop (Arlington, Va.), Michael Bender (Rye Brook, N.Y.), Hernan A. Cunico (Holly Springs, N.C.) and Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach for monitoring a user's in-flight activity and/or a pattern of movement of a user and warning the user of an in-flight activity or a pattern of movement that could lead to a potential short-term or long-term injury, a processor monitors a body movement and ...