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US 12,616,548 B2Granted
Systems and methods for surgical field item detection
AssigneeMagvation, LLC
InventorJason Howe
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for a surgical needle counting device for an operating room. An example system includes a collecting enclosure and a counting apparatus having a sensor configured for determining when a needle is dropped into the collecting enclosure. The counting apparatus is configured to maintain a count of needles introduced into a surgical field associated with the operating room and a count of needles accounted for in the counting apparatus.
Claims24
A surgical needle counting device for an operating room, comprising:
- a collecting enclosure;
- a counting apparatus having a sensor configured for determining when a needle is dropped into the collecting enclosure;
- the counting apparatus being configured to maintain a first count of needles introduced into a surgical field associated with the operating room and a second count of needles accounted for in the counting apparatus;
- wherein the second count of needles is associated with the collecting enclosure.
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A method of detecting a surgical needle in an operating room, comprising:
- maintaining a first count of needles introduced into a surgical field associated with the operating room;
- receiving a needle in a collecting enclosure;
- using a sensor to detect the presence of the needle in the collecting enclosure and to identify a type associated with the needle;
- updating an second accounted-for-needle count associated with the detected needle type and the collecting enclosure based on said identifying.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.