US 12,453,414 B2
Medical supply cabinet with medical supply contents having machine readable codes
Timothy John Ovenden, Upper Saddle River, NJ (US)
Assigned to Aero Healthcare (US), LLC, Valley Cottage, NY (US)
Filed by Aero Healthcare (US), LLC, Valley Cottage, NY (US)
Filed on Nov. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/523,322.
Application 17/523,322 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/468,802, filed on Sep. 8, 2021, granted, now 11,908,559.
Application 17/468,802 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/062,044, filed on Oct. 2, 2020, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/912,162, filed on Oct. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0175135 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A47B 67/02 (2006.01); A61B 50/10 (2016.01); A61F 17/00 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G09F 3/00 (2006.01); G09F 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC A47B 67/02 (2013.01) [A61B 50/10 (2016.02); G06K 7/1413 (2013.01); G06K 7/1417 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); G09F 3/0297 (2013.01); A61B 2050/105 (2016.02); A61F 17/00 (2013.01); G09F 2003/0216 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for auditing medical supplies, comprising:
providing a medical supply cabinet, comprising:
at least one storage area for storing a plurality of medical supply packages in a predetermined location within the at least one storage area,
wherein the at least one storage area comprises a cabinet storage volume,
wherein each of the plurality of medical supply packages comprises a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag identifying a medical supply within the medical supply package,
wherein at least one of the plurality of medical supply packages comprises the RFID tag on a removable portion of the medical supply package such that the RFID tag is not scanned by an RFID reader when the removable portion is removed; and
an inventory machine-readable code associated with a list of the plurality of medical supply packages configured to be stored in the medical supply cabinet;
a door having a liner removably attached thereto, the liner configured to store a subset of the plurality of medical supply packages,
wherein the liner comprises a plurality of pouches, each pouch configured to store a medical supply of the subset of the plurality of medical supply packages,
wherein the liner further comprises a first plurality of machine-readable codes, each of the first plurality of machine-readable codes located on the liner in a position corresponding to a pouch such that a machine-readable code is optically obscured by the medical supply when the medical supply is in the pouch and is optically machine-readable when the medical supply is removed from the pouch, and
wherein the liner further comprises a second plurality of machine-readable codes on a second side of the liner, each of the second plurality of machine-readable codes in a location corresponding to a medical supply package configured to be stored in the cabinet storage volume;
determining, based on a first RFID scan of the plurality of medical supply packages made by the RFID reader, a current supply status of the medical supply cabinet;
determining, based on a second scan of the inventory machine-readable code, the list of the plurality of medical supply packages configured to be stored in the medical supply cabinet;
determining, based on a comparison of the current supply status to the list of the plurality of medical supply packages configured to be stored in the medical supply cabinet, one or more needed supplies for the medical supply cabinet;
causing display of a user interface comprising an affordance actuatable to initiate a re-ordering of the one or more needed supplies for the medical supply cabinet; and
responsive to receiving actuation of the affordance, initiating the re-ordering of the one or more needed supplies for the medical supply cabinet.