US Patent Issued to Emerson Professional Tools on Sept. 2 for "Electric field detector wearable in multiple orientations" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,296, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Emerson Professional Tools Inc. (Elyria, Ohio).

"Electric field detector wearable in multiple orientations" was invented by Sabrina Maus (Loves Park, Ill.), Kristofer Mirjanic (Gilberts, Ill.) and William John McNulty (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable electric field detector is configured to detect an electric field generated by a high-voltage electrical source in an environment, and includes a first antenna, a second antenna, an electrical circuit board operatively coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna, a power source coupled to the circuit board, and a plurality...