Patent ID: 11925232
Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 5:
6. A hearing protector comprising:
a head-mounted device;
at least one position sensor coupled to the head-mounted device;
one or more ear muffs coupled to the at least one position sensor; and
a computing device communicatively coupled to the at least one position sensor and the at least one sound monitoring sensor, the at least one computing device comprising a memory and one or more computer processors to:
receive, from at least one sound monitoring sensor and over a time duration, indications of sound levels to which a worker is exposed;
determine, from the at least one position sensor and during the time duration, that the hearing protector is not positioned at one or more ears of the worker to attenuate the sound levels; and
generate, in response to the determination that at least one of the sound levels satisfies an exposure threshold during the time duration and the hearing protector is not positioned at one or more ears of the worker to attenuate the sound levels and that a noise level in a work environment of the worker is greater than or equal to a work environment noise threshold, an indication for output.