ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,547, issued on May 19, was assigned to Altec Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).
"Lanyard detection system" was invented by Joseph William Michael (Cameron, Mo.), Jonathan Westin Sykes (Gower, Mo.) and Timothy J. Mourlam (Shawnee, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, devices, and computer-readable media for lanyard detection applications. A lanyard attachment assembly may include a moveable element configured to be displaced in response to attachment of a lanyard device such that one or more sensors detect the attachment. In response to one or more operator inputs, an alert may be generated if determined that a lanyar...