ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,101, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Cable compaction system for protective personal equipment" was invented by Morgan S. Lindell (Varnamo, Sweden), Ulf Claesson (Varnamo, Sweden), Robert Karlsson (Bredaryd, Sweden), Johan F. Hakansson (Vaxjo, Sweden), Hans-Gerd Vollmers (Cologne, Germany) and Niklas D. B. Emilsson (Rydaholm, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing protection device is presented. The device has a first earmuff connected to a second earmuff by a connector. Each of the first and second earmuffs are configured to receive an ambient sound and provide a dampened ...