ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,681, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Albany, N.Y.).

"Clinical personal protective equipment with integrated display and medical device control system" was invented by Hesham Masoud (Syracuse, N.Y.) and Andrew Decker (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clinical personal protection equipment (PPE) system, worn by a healthcare provider, that can include a data display and selectively controls medical equipment. The system includes a computer platform that selectively communicates with a network, such as a Wifi network, and selectively communicates with and...