US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 7 for "Personal protective equipment with movement-based navigation" (North Carolina, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,669, issued on July 7, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Personal protective equipment with movement-based navigation" was invented by Darin K. Thompson (Huntersville, N.C.), Nicholas T. Gabriel (Grand Rapids, Minn.), Traian Morar (Matthews, N.C.) and Richard Olivera (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes personal protective equipment (PPE) configured to be worn by an agent. The PPE includes a sensor assembly configured to generate sensor data including one or more of motion data, heading data, and inertial data. The system also includes at least one computing device configured...