Operating room situated, parts-inventory control system and supervisory arrangement for accurately tracking the use of and accounting for the ultimate disposition of an individual component part of a complete implant which is then being surgically engrafted in-vivo upon or into the body of a living subject

A parts-inventory control system for tracking the use of and accounting for the ultimate disposition of at least some of the component parts needed for engrafting a complete implant as each individual component part is separately surgically introduced in-vivo at a preselected anatomic site upon or within the body of a living subject, said parts-inventory control system comprising:

• (1) a prepared-in-advance, inventory-parts dual correlation whereby a 1st correlation links each component part of the complete implant with a corresponding component part identification number, and wherein the 2nd correlation links each of said component part identification numbers with a corresponding singular RF signal;
• (2) a preformed, sterilizable on-demand, modular kit housing at least some of the component parts needed for engrafting a complete implant which is to be surgically introduced in-vivo upon or within the body of a living subject, wherein said modular kit has set dimensions, a fixed configuration, a discernible face surface, and a plurality of shaped wells suitable for individually housing said component parts;
• (3) a plurality of discrete use-tracking badges individually suitable for affixation at a pre-selected location on a face surface of said modular kit, wherein each of said use-tracking badges corresponds to a unique component part identification number and is able to release a corresponding singular RF signal on-demand into the ambient environment, and
• wherein each of said use-tracking badges is comprised of
• (α) a discernible foundation layer having set dimensions, a fixed configuration, and an exposed face surface, said foundation layer being formed of at least one and not more than three different preformed sheets joined together in overlay series, each of said preformed sheet being selected from the group consisting of a flat backing sheet composed of a dense and visibly colored matter, a planar sheet composed of durable and visibly clear light transparent material, and a numbered label indicative of one specific component part of said complete implant,
• (β) an operative, micron-sized, photovoltaic cell-chip transponder unit disposed upon and contained within the surface area of said foundation layer, said photovoltaic cell-chip transponder unit becoming activated and energized by light energy to generate and electronically emit a singular RF response signal indicative of a specific component part number into the ambient environment, and
• (γ) a preformed planar top sheet disposed upon and adhered fluid-tight to said photovoltaic cell-chip transponder unit and the face surface of said foundation layer;
• (4) at least one discernible modality disposition-accounting assembly suitable for on-demand affixation at a preselected location within the spatial confines of the operating room, wherein said modality disposition-accounting assembly presents an array of not less than two and not more than six transaction mode subassembly units and wherein each of said subassembly units in said array is spaced apart from the others in sequential series,
• said modality disposition-accounting assembly comprising
• (α) an optionally present, preformed planar base sheet composed of a durable and visibly clear light transparent matter, wherein said optionally present planar base sheet
• has a set elongated configuration and predetermined millimeter-sized length, width, and thickness dimensions,
• presents a discrete anterior face surface and a discrete posterior face surface, and
• has a visibly clear adhesive coating disposed upon its posterior face surface,
• (β) a plurality of preformed flat backing sheets which are each oriented and aligned, spaced apart, and positioned in sequential series,
• wherein each of said intermediate backing sheets is composed of a recognizably different and visually distinguishable colored material, and
• wherein each of said colored intermediate backing sheets has a pre-selected configuration and thickness dimension, presents limited length and width millimeter-sized dimensions, and
• has an anterior face surface and a posterior face surface of predetermined surface area,
• (γ) one discrete operative micron-sized photovoltaic cell-chip transponder units disposed upon and contained entirely within the anterior face surface area for each of said colored backing sheets, wherein each of said photovoltaic cell-chip transponder units is separately activated and individually energized by light energy to generate and electronically emit one singular RF response signal into the ambient environment, and
• (δ) a preformed planar top sheet disposed upon and joined fluid-tight to each of said operative micron-sized photovoltaic cell-chip transponder units and to said anterior face surface area of each of said colored backing sheets, wherein said planar top sheet
• is composed entirely of a durable, visibly clear, transparent material, presents a discrete anterior face sheet surface and a discrete posterior face sheet surface,
• has an elongated configuration and millimeter-sized length and width dimensions which are not less than the dimension of said colored backing sheets,
• has a visibly clear, light transparent adhesive coating disposed upon its posterior face surface;
• (5) a preformed, light-energy emitting on-demand, wand which generates a photon stream, has a fixed light beam diameter size, and emits light at a prechosen wavelength and at a pre-determined intensity;
• (6) a telemetric RF signal receiver able to receive and then convey a range of different and diverse RF response signals after said RF signals are generated and released into the ambient environment;
• and
• (7) at least one RF signal compilation unit in communication with said RF signal receiver, wherein said RF signal compilation unit accepts, accumulates and records all conveyed RF response signals as data, compiles and analyzes the conveyed RF signal data, and is able to display the conveyed RF signal data in at least one visual format.