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US 12,357,411 B2Granted
System and methods for providing inductive sensing of sharps and other medical instruments
AssigneeMagvation, LLC
InventorsMichael P. Koclanes, Bill Brown, Lakmal Wijesekara, Jason Howe, Niren Angle, Jon Robinson, Paul Gallese
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for a surgical needle counting system for an operating room. A system includes counting apparatus and a removable collecting enclosure positioned at an exit of the counting apparatus. The counting apparatus includes a sensor for sensing a surgical needle when it is dropped into the counting apparatus, and the counting apparatus is configured for storing a number of counted surgical needles.
Claims21
A surgical needle counting system for an operating room, comprising:
- a counting apparatus;
- a removable collecting enclosure positioned at an exit of the counting apparatus;
- wherein the counting apparatus includes a sensor for sensing a surgical needle when it is dropped into the counting apparatus, the counting apparatus being configured for storing a number of counted surgical needles;
- wherein the counting apparatus is configured to detect removal of the removable collecting enclosure and attachment of a new removable collecting enclosure and to close a count associated with the number of counted surgical needles in the removed removable collecting enclosure;
- wherein when a new removable collecting enclosure is attached to the counting apparatus, the closed count and an identification of the new removable collecting enclosure is transmitted to a backend database.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.