US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on March 3 for "Respiratory protective device with continuous fit monitoring" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,228, issued on March 3, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Respiratory protective device with continuous fit monitoring" was invented by Sundaresan Jayaraman (Atlanta) and Sungmee Park (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary system and method are disclosed for a respiratory protective device configured to continuously monitor, via an integrated sensor network embedded in the device's frame, the fit or proper particulate-filtering operation of the respiratory protective device. The system can ensure proper operation of respiratory protective device while providing monitoring and tracking of the fit to...