US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Jan. 20 for "Location system and article of personal protective equipment" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,956, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Location system and article of personal protective equipment" was invented by Dana C. DeMeo (Matthews, N.C.) and John G. Dinning IV (Waxhaw, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A location system for locating a hose includes at least one location indicator coupled to the hose and configured to transmit an indicator signal indicative of a location of the at least one location indicator. The location system further includes a detection circuit associated with and carried by a user. The detection circuit includes a detection controller communicably c...