Granted Patent B2

US 12,635,744 · App. 18/634,891 · Granted May 26, 2026

Inventors: Giacomo Sacca (Allentown, NJ); Cameron Christensen (Mountain View, CA); Nelson So (Dawsonville, GA); Patrick M. Gibbons (Columbia, MD); Gary Berg (Campbell, CA); John Bridge (Hillsborough, NC); Frank L. Hammond, III (Atlanta, GA); Raj Abhyanker (Mountain View, CA)

A41D13/0002A61B5/021A61B5/02405A61B5/0533A61B5/4088A61B2562/043

Abstract

Claims (29)

1 . A personal protective equipment, comprising:

a language translator module integrated in a tactical gear through which a wearer to bi-directionally communicate with an individual in an ambient environment using any language other than a primary language spoken by the wearer when the language translator module is activated;

a biometric sensor of the tactical gear to detect a health condition of the wearer; and

a responsive device integrated in the tactical gear,

wherein the responsive device to vibrate when the biometric sensor detects an elevated stress level of the wearer of the tactical gear.

2 . The personal protective equipment of claim 1 wherein the elevated stress level is detected through a heart rate monitor which determines whether a heart rate of the wearer is beyond an acceptable range.

3 . The personal protective equipment of claim 2 wherein the heart rate monitor to evaluate a heart rate variability (HRV), which is a variation in time between each heartbeat, and wherein a lower HRV is an indicator of the elevated stress level.

4 . The personal protective equipment of claim 1 wherein the biometric sensor is a galvanic skin response (GSR) skin conductance sensor to measure an electrical conductance of a skin of the wearer, which increases with sweat gland activity, and wherein a higher electrical conductance to indicate the elevated stress level.

5 . The personal protective equipment of claim 1 wherein the biometric sensor is a blood pressure sensor to detect a temporary spike in blood pressure that indicates the elevated stress level.

6 . The personal protective equipment of claim 1 wherein the responsive device to detect the elevated stress level using an artificial intelligence-based threat detection model.

7 . The personal protective equipment of claim 6 :

wherein the artificial intelligence-based threat detection model to also detect and analyze human emotion of the individual in an ambient area to the wearer using computer vision and auditory sensing to detect a presence or absence of an ambient threat.

8 . The personal protective equipment of claim 7 wherein the responsive device is part of an array of haptic sensors to vibrate at different locations of a body of the wearer depending on a directional location of the ambient threat.

9 . The personal protective equipment of claim 8 :

wherein an intensity of vibration of the array of haptic sensors is dependent on a proximity of the ambient threat to the wearer, and

wherein a pattern of vibration of the responsive device is dependent on a type of ambient threat to the wearer.

10 . The personal protective equipment of claim 1 wherein the biometric sensor to automatically document a health condition of the wearer and communicate that information to at least one of a command center and a hospital.

11 . The personal protective equipment of claim 1 :

wherein the biometric sensor is detachable from the tactical gear and placeable on an injured person nearby to the wearer through an armband extendable from the biometric sensor when it is removed from the tactical gear, and

wherein the biometric sensor to automatically communicate a biometric information of at least one of the injured person and the wearer to the hospital when removed from the tactical gear and placed on an arm of the injured person, when the injured person is en route to the hospital.

12 . The personal protective equipment of claim 1 wherein the personal protective equipment communicates without electronic signature through a non-radiative, human-body-centered communication network.

13 . A personal protective equipment, comprising:

a biometric sensor of a tactical gear to detect a health condition of a wearer; and

a responsive device to vibrate when the biometric sensor detects an elevated stress level of the wearer of the tactical gear,

wherein the biometric sensor is detachable from the tactical gear and placeable on an injured person nearby to the wearer through an armband extendable from the biometric sensor when it is removed from the tactical gear, and

wherein the biometric sensor to automatically communicate a biometric information of at least one of the injured person and the wearer to a hospital when removed from the tactical gear and placed on an arm of the injured person, when the injured person is en route to the hospital.

14 . The personal protective equipment of claim 13 wherein the elevated stress level is detected through a heart rate monitor which determines whether a heart rate of the wearer is beyond an acceptable range.

15 . The personal protective equipment of claim 14 wherein the heart rate monitor to evaluate heart rate variability (HRV), which is a variation in time between each heartbeat, and wherein a lower HRV is an indicator of the elevated stress level.

16 . The personal protective equipment of claim 13 wherein the biometric sensor is a galvanic skin response (GSR) skin conductance sensor to measure an electrical conductance of a skin of the wearer, which increases with sweat gland activity, and wherein a higher electrical conductance to indicate the elevated stress level.

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