System and method for identifying and controlling ophthalmic surgical devices and components

A system for identifying a component that is used with an ophthalmic surgical device, wherein the ophthalmic surgical device is a vitreoretinal surgical device, comprising:

• a receiver,
• a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag;
• a memory, the memory storing criteria;
• and
• a controller, the controller, the memory and the receiver being included in the ophthalmic surgical device, the RFID tag being included in the component used with the ophthalmic surgical device, data from the RFID tag in the component being transmitted to the receiver in the ophthalmic surgical device,
• the controller determining whether the component corresponding to the received data can be used with the ophthalmic surgical device based on whether the received data satisfies the criteria stored in the memory.

A system for identifying a component that is used with an ophthalmic surgical device, comprising:

• a receiver,
• an identifier;
• a memory, the memory storing criteria;
• and
• a controller, wherein the controller, the memory and the receiver are included in the ophthalmic surgical device, and the identifier is included in the component, data from the identifier in the component being transmitted to the receiver in the ophthalmic surgical device;
• the controller determining whether the component corresponding to the received data can be used with the ophthalmic surgical device based on whether the data received from the identifier is one of a number of authorized codes that satisfies the criteria stored in memory, authorized codes being selected from a larger set of available codes, wherein the number of available codes is at least three orders of magnitude greater than the number of authorized codes.

A system for identifying a component that is used with an ophthalmic surgical device, the ophthalmic surgical device being a laser, comprising:

• a receiver,
• an identifier;
• a memory, the memory storing criteria;
• and
• a controller, wherein the controller, the memory and the receiver are included in the ophthalmic surgical device, and the identifier is included in the component, data from the identifier in the component being transmitted to the receiver in the ophthalmic surgical device;
• the controller determining whether the component corresponding to the received data can be used with the ophthalmic surgical device based on whether the data received from the identifier is one of a number of authorized codes that satisfies the criteria stored in memory, authorized codes being selected from a larger set of available codes, wherein the number of available codes is at least three orders of magnitude greater than the number of authorized codes.

A system for identifying a component that is used with an ophthalmic surgical device, the ophthalmic surgical device being a vitreoretinal surgical device, comprising:

• a receiver,
• an identifier;
• a memory, the memory storing criteria;
• and
• a controller, wherein the controller, the memory and the receiver are included in the ophthalmic surgical device, and the identifier is included in the component, data from the identifier in the component being transmitted to the receiver in the ophthalmic surgical device:
• the controller determining whether the component corresponding to the received data can be used with the ophthalmic surgical device based on whether the data received from the identifier is one of a number of authorized codes that satisfies the criteria stored in memory, authorized codes being selected from a larger set of available codes, wherein the number of available codes is at least three orders of magnitude greater than the number of authorized codes.

A system for identifying a component that is used with an ophthalmic surgical device, comprising:

• a receiver;
• a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag;
• a memory, the memory storing criteria;
• and
• a controller, the controller, the memory and the receiver being included in the ophthalmic surgical device, the RFID tag being included in the component, unencrypted data from the RFID tag in the component being transmitted to the to the receiver in the ophthalmic surgical device,
• the controller determining whether the component corresponding to the unencrypted data received from the RFID tag can be used with the ophthalmic surgical device based on whether the received data is one of a number of authorized codes that satisfies the criteria stored in memory, authorized codes being selected from a larger set of available codes, wherein the number of available codes is at least thee orders of magnitude greater than the number of authorized codes.

A system for identifying a component that is used with an ophthalmic surgical device, the ophthalmic surgical device being a laser, comprising:

• a receiver;
• a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag;
• a memory, the memory storing criteria;
• and
• a controller, the controller, the memory and the receiver being included in the ophthalmic surgical device, the RFID tag being included in the component, unencrypted data from the RFID tag in the component being transmitted to the to the receiver in the ophthalmic surgical device,
• the controller determining whether the component corresponding to the unencrypted data received from the RFID tag can be used with the ophthalmic surgical device based on whether the received data is one of a number of authorized codes that satisfies the criteria stored in memory, authorized codes being selected from a larger set of available codes.

A system for identifying a component that is used with an ophthalmic surgical device, the ophthalmic surgical device being a vitreoretinal surgical device, comprising:

• a receiver;
• a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag;
• a memory, the memory storing criteria;
• and
• a controller, the controller, the memory and the receiver being included in the ophthalmic surgical device, the RFID tag being included in the component, unencrypted data from the RFID tag in the component being transmitted to the to the receiver in the ophthalmic surgical device,
• the controller determining whether the component corresponding to the unencrypted data received from the RFID tag can be used with the ophthalmic surgical device based on whether the received data is one of a number of authorized codes that satisfies the criteria stored in memory, authorized codes being selected from a larger set of available codes.

A method of identifying a component that can be used with an ophthalmic surgical device, comprising:

• providing an ophthalmic surgical device and a component that is attached to the ophthalmic surgical device;
• establishing criteria and storing the criteria in a memory of the ophthalmic surgical device, establishing criteria comprising selecting an algorithm, the algorithm being applied to the data received from the identifier to determine whether the component can be used with the ophthalmic surgical device, wherein the algorithm is a random number generator algorithm;
• transmitting data from an identifier in the component to a receiver in the ophthalmic surgical device;
• determining whether the component corresponding to the received data can be used with the ophthalmic surgical device based on whether the received data is an authorized code that satisfies the criteria stored in the memory.

A method of identifying a component that can be used with an ophthalmic surgical device, comprising:

• providing an ophthalmic surgical device and a component that is attached to the ophthalmic surgical device;
• establishing criteria and storing the criteria in a memory of the ophthalmic surgical device, establishing criteria comprising selecting an algorithm, the algorithm being applied to the data received from the identifier to determine whether the component can be used with the ophthalmic surgical device, wherein the algorithm is a random number generator algorithm;
• transmitting data from an identifier in the component to a receiver in the ophthalmic surgical device;
• determining whether the component corresponding to the received data can be used with the ophthalmic surgical device based on whether the received data is an authorized code that satisfies the criteria stored in the memory;
• identifying the type of component based on the identifier data;
• and
• enabling operating parameters that are compatible with the identified component.