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US 11,433,153 B2Granted
Methods for organizing the disinfection of one or more items contaminated with biological agents
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
InventorChetan Jinedatha
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Abstract
The invention provides method for organizing the disinfection of one or more items contaminated with biological agent(s) comprising (a) attaching a radio-frequency ID (RFID) tag to an item(s) to be disinfected; exposing the item(s) of (a) to a disinfecting means for a period sufficient to disinfect the item; and (c) obtaining a signal from the tagged item when disinfection is complete thereby organizing the disinfection of one or more items.
Claims16
A method, comprising:
- receiving a first signal indicating a patient has been discharged from a patient room;
- and
- responsive to the first signal, sending a second signal to a wireless communication tag of an item in the patient room to alter the display on the wireless communication tag.
A method, comprising:
- exposing a designated space to a disinfectant, said designated space having one or more wireless communication tags;
- receiving a signal that a predetermined amount of the disinfectant has been detected;
- and
- subsequent to receiving the signal, sending a different signal of a predetermined strength to update displays only on a set of the one or more wireless communication tags that are within a set distance from the source of the disinfectant, wherein the predetermined strength is less than a signal strength constituting a maximum communication range of a transmitter sending the different signal, and wherein the different signal is to update the displays on the set of the one or more wireless communication tags to be indicative of a clean status for surfaces in the designated space comprising the respective set of one or more wireless communication tags.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.