US Patent Issued to Honeywell Safety Products USA on Aug. 11 for "Strap for face mask having multiple configurations" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,173, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Honeywell Safety Products USA Inc. (Latham, N.Y.).

"Strap for face mask having multiple configurations" was invented by Rocky Qu (Morris Plains, N.J.), Gio Xu (Morris Plains, N.J.) and Zhaoxia Jin (Morris Plains, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate generally to masks, such as filtration masks, with multiple strap configurations. For example, such masks might be worn in either a head strap or an ear strap configuration. Embodiments typically comprise two ear straps each with a connector support element allowing removable attachment of a separate head strap."

The patent was fi...