Medical container, system and method for tracking data relating to said medical container
AssigneeBecton Dickinson France
InventorsCédric Rivier, Nicolas Euvrard, Alfred Leibbrand
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a medical container including a first RFID tag on and/or within the medical container. The first RFID tag being operable in a first frequency band and being configured for storing a unique identifier of the medical container; and at least one of (i) a second RFID tag on and/or within the medical container, the second RFID tag being operable in a second frequency band lower than the first frequency band and being configured for storing the unique identifier of the medical container; and (ii) an optical mark on and/or within the medical container, the optical mark encoding the unique identifier of the medical container.
Claims17
A medical container comprising:
- a first RFID disposed on a first surface of the medical container, the first RFID tag being operable in a first frequency band and being configured for storing a unique identifier of the medical container, the unique identifier uniquely identifying the container, the first RFID tag configured for long-range interrogation during industrial processing of the medical container;
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- a second RFID tag disposed on a second surface of the medical container, the second RFID tag being operable in a second frequency band lower than the first frequency band and configured to store the unique identifier of the medical container, the second RFID tag configured for near-field interrogation at a point of use of the medical container,
- wherein, in response to reading the first RFID tag during production or inspection of the medical container, a data storage system is configured to associate the unique identifier with at least one of:
- manufacturing parameters, inspection results, or environmental variables recorded during production of the medical container;
- wherein the association of the unique identifier with said manufacturing parameters, inspection results, or environmental variables is only performed in response to reading the first RFID tag, and
- wherein manufacturing traceability data and point-of-use verification are enforced through different RFID tags operating at different stages of a medical container lifecycle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.