US 12,357,411 B2
System and methods for providing inductive sensing of sharps and other medical instruments
Michael P. Koclanes, Johnstown, CO (US); Bill Brown, Chandler, AZ (US); Lakmal Wijesekara, Superior, CO (US); Jason Howe, Fallbrook, CA (US); Niren Angle, Danville, CA (US); Jon Robinson, Elm Grove, WI (US); and Paul Gallese, Solon, OH (US)
Assigned to Magvation, LLC, Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed by Magvation, LLC, Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed on Oct. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/491,829.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/195,924, filed on Jun. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/086,300, filed on Oct. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0104903 A1, Apr. 7, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 50/36 (2016.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01)
CPC A61B 90/08 (2016.02) [A61B 50/362 (2016.02); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); A61B 2090/0803 (2016.02)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical needle counting system for an operating room, comprising:
a counting apparatus;
a removable collecting enclosure positioned at an exit of the counting apparatus;
wherein the counting apparatus includes a sensor for sensing a surgical needle when it is dropped into the counting apparatus, the counting apparatus being configured for storing a number of counted surgical needles;
wherein the counting apparatus is configured to detect removal of the removable collecting enclosure and attachment of a new removable collecting enclosure and to close a count associated with the number of counted surgical needles in the removed removable collecting enclosure;
wherein when a new removable collecting enclosure is attached to the counting apparatus, the closed count and an identification of the new removable collecting enclosure is transmitted to a backend database.