ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,056, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SALUNDA Ltd. (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).
"Personnel safety sensing" was invented by John Wilson (Bicester, Great Britain) and Grant Nicholls (Hampshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety sensing system implements a method for a person in an industrial environment comprises providing a personnel locator device (10) for location on a person and a reference system comprising a plurality of nodes (20) located at predetermined locations in the industrial environment (100). Radio ranging signals are transmitted between the nodes (20) and the personnel locator device (10) and mea...