ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,984, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAS INSTITUTE INC. (Cary, N.C.).

"Detection of unsafe personal protection equipment status with multi-modal context awareness" was invented by Priti Upadhyay (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Hardi Desai (Dunellen, N.J.), Jonathan James McElhinney (Glasgow, Great Britain), Kedar Shriram Prabhudesai (Apex, N.C.), Jonathan Lee Walker (Raleigh, N.C.), Sanjeev Shyam Heda (Kennesaw, Ga.), Andrey Matveenko (Phuket, Thailand), Varunraj Valsaraj (Cary, N.C.), Rik Peter de Ruiter (Amersfoort, Netherlands) and Kunind Sahu (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system can access ...