US Patent Issued to The ESAB Group on Feb. 24 for "Monitoring system employing smart gloves to analyze operator fabrication activities" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,746, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The ESAB Group Inc. (North Bethesda, Md.).

"Monitoring system employing smart gloves to analyze operator fabrication activities" was invented by Christopher Hsu (Elkridge, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus includes a monitor in communication with, e.g., a work glove with built-in sensors to track an operator's physical activities including intermittently using hand tools, hand motion, and position or location in a work area. The sensors provide time-series data representative of the activities, and the monitor classifies and sequences the activities based on the time-ser...