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US 12,171,695 B2Granted
Medical technology station and method of use
AssigneeCapsa Solutions LLC
InventorsRobert Volek, Jack Finnerty, Jin Chen, Krzysztof Sosniak, Marcel Ipince, Charles Pfeiffer, Adam Piotrowski, Harry Tan
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Abstract
A medical station includes a movable cart, a cassette system, and a computer system with a configuration map. The cassette system including a plurality of drawers. The configuration map includes, for each respective one of the drawers, a unique drawer identifier and an indicator of a location of the respective one of the drawers at the cassette system.
Claims15
A medical station comprising:
- a movable cart;
- a computer system comprising an input device, a display device, and a processor, the computer system positioned on the cart and including computer memory in communication with the processor;
- a housing mounted on the cart;
- at least one portable cassette system removably coupled to the housing, wherein the processor is in electronic communication with the input device, the display device, and the cassette system;
- and
- wherein the cassette system comprises:
- a cassette frame defining an interior divided into compartments;
- drawers, each of the drawers occupying, and being slidably positioned in, at least one of the compartments;
- radio frequency identifier (RFID) tags, each provided at one of the drawers and comprising an identifier for a respective one of the drawers stored thereon;
- electronic readers, each in communication with the processor and provided at an interior of one of the compartments and configured to read the RFID tags when the RFID tags are placed within sufficient proximity of the electronic readers to be energized by the electronic readers, wherein the electronic readers comprise a first electronic reader capable of reading the RFID tag of a first one of the drawers which is in a closed position, but not capable of reading the RFID tag of an adjacent one of the drawers when the adjacent one of the drawers is in the closed position, and the first electronic reader is configured to read only the RFID tag of the first one of the drawers by way of a low power signal which is incapable of energizing the RFID tag of the adjacent one of the drawers;
- each of the compartments having an actuator associated therewith in communication with the processor and associated with an actuator latch that is movable in response to operation of the associated actuator;
- each of the drawers having at least one drawer latch, and each of the drawers capable of moving from a locked and closed position to an unlocked position in response to movement from the associated actuator latch;
- a configuration map located in the computer memory, the configuration map comprising, for each respective one of the drawers, a unique drawer identifier and an indicator of a relative size and location of the respective one of the drawers in an interior of the cassette frame;
- wherein the computer system is configured to receive output from the electronic readers comprising the identifiers, determine from which of the electronic identifiers each of the identifiers was received, identify the relative size and location of each of the drawers in the cassette frame based, at least in part, on the determination and visually depict the configuration map at a graphical user interface of the display device, where said visual depiction comprises representation of the relative size and location of the drawers, including relative to other ones of the drawers, and in association with a given cassette of the cassette system.
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A medical station comprising:
- a movable cart;
- a cassette system provided at said moveable cart and comprising:
- a frame;
- a plurality of drawers;
- and
- a plurality of compartments, each occupied by one of said plurality of drawers;
- a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, each provided at a rear portion of one of the plurality of drawers and comprising a unique drawer identifier stored thereon;
- electronic readers, each provided at a rear portion of one of the compartments and configured to read the RFID tags when said RFID tags are within sufficient proximity to be energized by the electronic readers;
- an electronic display provided at the moveable cart;
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- a computer system provided at the movable cart, said computer system in electronic communication with each of the plurality of sensors and the electronic display, said computer system configured to:
- receive output from the electronic readers, said output comprising the unique drawer identifiers received from the RFID tags in sufficient proximity to the electronic readers;
- provide a determination of which of the electronic readers each of the unique drawer identifiers is received from;
- generate, based on said output from the plurality of sensors, a configuration map indicating, for each respective one of the drawers, the unique drawer identifier and a location of the respective one of the drawers within the cassette system based on the determination;
- update the configuration map as new output is received from the electronic readers and new determinations are made of which of the electronic readers each of the unique drawer identifiers is received from;
- and
- display the configuration map at said electronic display.
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A medical station comprising:
- a movable cart;
- a cassette system provided at said moveable cart and comprising a cassette frame defining, at least in part, drawer compartments, one or more electronic readers, each associated with one or more of the drawer compartments, one or more drawers, and one or more electronically readable tags, each associated with one of the drawers and configured to provide an output when energized comprising a respective identifier;
- an electronic display provided at said movable cart;
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- a computer system provided at the movable cart and comprising one or more non-transitory storage devices comprising software instructions, which when executed, configure one or more processors to:
- receive the output from the electronically readable tags and identify a relative location and size of the drawers at the cassette frame in accordance with the output, in accordance with the same, provide and update a configuration map stored at the one or more non-transitory storage devices, said configuration map including, for each respective one of the drawers, a drawer identifier, and a visual representation of the relative size and location of the drawers at the cassette system, including relative to other ones of the drawers and in association with a given cassette of the cassette system, and cause display, at the electronic display, of the visual representation and the drawer identifiers, each in association with one of the visualized drawers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.