US 11,756,402 B2
Operator proficiency-based infrastructure articles
Kristen J. Hansen, Afton, MN (US); Douglas S. Dunn, Woodbury, MN (US); and Jonathan D. Gandrud, Woodbury, MN (US)
Assigned to 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US)
Appl. No. 17/609,848
Filed by 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US)
PCT Filed May 20, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/054795
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/240353, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/852,500, filed on May 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0223024 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. G08B 21/18 (2006.01); B62K 11/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G08B 21/18 (2013.01) [B62K 11/00 (2013.01); B62K 2202/00 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An infrastructure article comprising:
a signal receiver device configured to receive a wireless signal from a signal emitter device configured at an electrically powered scooter;
a controller configured to:
determine information, coded in the wireless signal, that is based on an operator proficiency of an operator of the electrically powered scooter; and
perform, based at least in part on the information that indicates the operator proficiency of the operator of the electrically powered scooter, at least one operation.