US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Oct. 20 for "Article of personal protective equipment, system, computing device, and computer-implemented method" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,039, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Article of personal protective equipment, system, computing device, and computer-implemented method" was invented by Gary R. Stephany (Stillwater, Minn.), Michael G. Wurm (Waukesha, Wis.), Eric J. Larson (Bayport, Minn.) and Shane A. Hainey (Cottage Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of a personal protective equipment includes at least one microphone, a memory, and a processor communicably coupled to each of the at least one microphone and the memory. The at least one microphone is configured to generate one or more audio stre...