Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatic identification of instruments
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Application No.: US17346911Application Date: 2021-06-14
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Publication No.: US11672611B2Publication Date: 2023-06-13
- Inventor: Joseph Moctezuma , Craig Drager , Joseph Thomas Cilke , Victor D. Snyder , Wei-Shyang Yang , Justin Kemp , Andrew Wald , Jerald Lamont Redmond , Shai Ronen , Nikhil Mahendra
- Applicant: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CO Louisville
- Assignee: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Louisville
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Main IPC: A61B34/20
- IPC: A61B34/20 ; A61B90/98 ; A61B90/96 ; A61B34/00 ; A61B90/00 ; A61B90/92 ; A61B34/10 ; A61B5/06 ; A61B90/94 ; G06V10/44 ; G06V20/00 ; G06F18/2413 ; G06V10/764 ; G06V10/82

Abstract:
A system and apparatus is disclosed to automatically determine the identification and selected information relating to instruments. The identification information may be read or determined by various reader systems and then transferred for various purposes. The identification information may be stored on the instrument with a storage system or printing and/or recalled from a memory once the identification is made.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210298844A1 Automatic Identification Of Instruments Public/Granted day:2021-09-30
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