US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Dec. 2 for "Personal protective equipment system having analytics engine with integrated monitoring, alerting, and predictive safety event avoidance" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,261, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Personal protective equipment system having analytics engine with integrated monitoring, alerting, and predictive safety event avoidance" was invented by Steven T. Awiszus (Woodbury, Minn.), Kiran S. Kanukurthy (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Eric C. Lobner (Woodbury, Minn.), Robert J. Quintero (St. Paul, Minn.), Micayla A. Johnson (Farmington, Minn.) and Madeleine Filloux (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system includes an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) comprising one or more sensors, the one or more sens...