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US 10,702,321 B2Granted
Automated screw identification system and method
AssigneeSummate Technologies, Inc.
InventorsPhilip Sayles, Todd Rosseau
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Abstract
A tray includes a plurality of rows, each of which includes a plurality of slots. Each row contains a plurality of screws. Different rows may contain screws of different types, e.g., lengths. Each of one or more rows contains a machine-readable object (e.g., peg) containing data representing properties of the objects in the corresponding rows. Removal of an object from a row is performed by reading data from the machine-readable object in the row and using that data to modify (e.g., decrement or increment) a count of the type of object contained in that row.
Claims8
An implant tray comprising:
- a plurality of rows of slots;
- a first machine-readable object in a first slot in a first one of the plurality of rows of slots, the first machine-readable object including a first non-transitory machine-readable storage medium containing first data representing a first property of at least one first supply;
- a first non-machine-readable supply in a second slot in the first one of the plurality of rows of slots, wherein the first non-machine-readable supply has the first property, wherein the first slot differs from the second slot, wherein the second slot does not contain any machine-readable object;
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- a second non-machine-readable supply in a third slot in the first one of the plurality of rows of slots, wherein the second non-machine-readable supply has the first property, wherein the third slot does not contain any machine-readable object, wherein the third slot differs from the first slot and the second slot.
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