US 2021/0280305 A1 · DATA LOGGER FOR STERILIZER

Abstract

A data logger for collecting, storing, and transferring data received from a sterilizer is described herein. The data logger is sized and shaped to fit into a slot or opening defined by the sterilizer and previously used for receiving a printing device to output sterilizer data on a printer ribbon. The data logger includes a circuit to facilitate receiving data formatted to conform to at least two different transmission protocols (e.g. RS-232 serial data transmission protocol or TTL serial data transmission protocol). The circuit allows the data logger to be used with different styles of sterilizers and thus increases the set of viable sterilizers. The data logger includes at least one memory device for storing the logged data. This memory device may be a removable component. The data logger may also include a port or connector element for a second memory device such as a USB stick. The data logger may be configured to transfer the logged data to the USB stuck upon insertion or detection of the USB stick in the port.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

(a) connecting a data logger to a sterilizer, wherein the data logger is configured to receive and process incoming data from the sterilizer formatted in either a first data transfer protocol or a second data transfer protocol;
(b) performing a sterilizing cycle by the sterilizer;
and
(c) after the sterilizing cycle, transmitting a data stream from the sterilizer to the data logger, wherein the data stream is formatted in the first data transfer protocol.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/195,906Filed 9 Mar 2021

Priority

9 Mar 2020

Published

9 Sep 2021

Term ends

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Classification5 codes

G16H 40/20
ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities; ICT specially adapted for the management or…:…
G06F 13/1668
For access to memory bus: details of memory controller
G06F 16/258
Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems: data format conversion from or to a database
G16H
Healthcare informatics, i.e. information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for the

Data logger for sterilizer

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Data logger for sterilizer

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Abstract

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