US 12,168,150 B2
Personal protective equipment safety system using contextual information from industrial control systems
Steven T. Awiszus, Woodbury, MN (US); Michael G. Wurm, Waukesha, WI (US); David R. Stein, White Bear Lake, MN (US); and Johannes P. M. Kusters, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US)
Appl. No. 17/250,232
Filed by 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/055262
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 21, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/244125, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/688,942, filed on Jun. 22, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0210202 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G05B 19/042 (2006.01); A62B 99/00 (2009.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0639 (2023.01); G07C 1/10 (2006.01); G08B 21/04 (2006.01); G16H 40/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); H04Q 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC A62B 99/00 (2013.01) [G05B 19/0428 (2013.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06Q 10/06398 (2013.01); G07C 1/10 (2013.01); G08B 21/0438 (2013.01); G16H 40/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); H04Q 9/00 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) that includes a communication component;
an industrial controller device that is configured to control an industrial device and includes a communication component; and
a computing device communicatively coupled to the article of PPE and the industrial controller device, wherein the computing device comprises:
one or more computer processors; and
a memory comprising instructions that when executed by the one or more computer processors cause the one or more computer processors to:
receive PPE data from the article of PPE and industrial controller data from the industrial controller device;
determine, based at least in part on a set of the PPE data that temporally corresponds to a set of the industrial controller data, an occurrence of a safety event; and
perform, based at least in part on the determination of the safety event, at least one operation.