US 12,257,109 B2
Surgical-implement count and capture system
Cristiano Quintini, Beachwood, OH (US); William Kolosi, Stow, OH (US); Thomas Kadavy, Bellevue, WA (US); and Jose Romero, Avon, OH (US)
Assigned to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION, Cleveland, OH (US)
Filed by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH (US)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/462,204.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/073,182, filed on Sep. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0061953 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 17/06 (2006.01); A61B 50/00 (2016.01); A61B 50/20 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 90/08 (2016.02) [A61B 17/06114 (2013.01); A61B 50/20 (2016.02); A61B 2050/002 (2016.02); A61B 2050/21 (2016.02); A61B 2090/0805 (2016.02)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical-implement count and capture system comprising:
a base station and a cassette removably installable to the base station, the cassette comprising:
a carrier tape having a plurality of predefined, spaced-apart receiving areas disposed longitudinally along the carrier tape, each of said plurality of spaced-apart receiving areas being configured to receive a surgical-implement, the carrier tape following a first pathway;
a deposit station located along said first pathway and adapted to accommodate deposition of a plurality of said surgical-implements respectively into successive ones of said spaced-apart receiving areas when resident at the deposit station;
a cover tape following a second pathway that intersects the first pathway downstream of the deposit station such that the cover tape can be applied to the carrier tape to capture the surgical-implements in the respective receiving areas; and
a counting station located along said first pathway downstream of said deposit station; and
the base station further comprising a sensor adapted to detect said plurality of said surgical-implements in the respective receiving areas when the cassette is installed to the base station.