US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on May 12 for "Systems and methods for automated respirator" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,099, issued on May 12, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for automated respirator" was invented by Richard C. Webb (St. Paul, Minn.), Andrew W. Long (Woodbury, Minn.), Jessica L. Tredinnick-Higgins (St. Paul, Minn.), David R. Stein (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Daniel B. Taylor (White Bear Lake, Minn.) and Jacob P. Vanderheyden (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computing device comprising: at least one processor; and a memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: receive first senso...