ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,494, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MSA Technology LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"Fall protection compliance system and method" was invented by Benjamin T. Sepe (Zelienople, Pa.), Jeffrey F. Harding (Pittsburgh), Mitcham C. Tuell (Pittsburgh), Robert Craig Campbell (Cranberry Township, Pa.), Christopher M. Stygar (Pittsburgh), Peter I. Rutkowski (Allison Park, Pa.) and Michael Goodspeed (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fall protection compliance system includes a connection structure configured for interfacing an anchor structure and a connection sensor associated with the connection structure. The connection senso...