US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on June 2 for "Article of personal protective equipment and system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,395, issued on June 2, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Article of personal protective equipment and system" was invented by Benjamin W. Watson (Odiham, Great Britain), David J. Crouch (South Yorkshire, Great Britain), Mohammed Saleem (Reading, Great Britain) and Bradley D. Murray (White Bear Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) associated with a worker. The article of PPE includes at least one sensor configured to generate signals indicative of a sensed variable related to at least one of the worker and the work env...