US 12,171,695 B2
Medical technology station and method of use
Robert Volek, Brooklyn, NY (US); Jack Finnerty, Cambridge (GB); Jin Chen, Somerset, NJ (US); Krzysztof Sosniak, Stirling, NJ (US); Marcel Ipince, North Plainfield, NJ (US); Charles Pfeiffer, Phillipsburg, NJ (US); Adam Piotrowski, Clifton, NJ (US); and Harry Tan, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to Capsa Solutions LLC, Canal Winchester, OH (US)
Filed by Capsa Solutions LLC, Canal Winchester, OH (US)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/942,315.
Application 17/942,315 is a division of application No. 16/910,988, filed on Jun. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,439,555.
Application 16/910,988 is a continuation of application No. 15/975,860, filed on May 10, 2018, granted, now 10,751,239, issued on Aug. 25, 2020.
Application 15/975,860 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2016/061911, filed on Nov. 14, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/255,336, filed on Nov. 13, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2023/0000709 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61G 12/00 (2006.01); A47B 31/00 (2006.01); A47B 67/02 (2006.01); A61J 7/00 (2006.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01)
CPC A61G 12/001 (2013.01) [A47B 31/00 (2013.01); A61J 7/0084 (2013.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); A47B 2031/003 (2013.01); A47B 2031/006 (2013.01); A47B 67/02 (2013.01); A47B 2067/025 (2013.01); A61G 2203/16 (2013.01); A61G 2203/20 (2013.01); A61G 2205/60 (2013.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical station comprising:
a movable cart;
a computer system comprising an input device, a display device, and a processor, the computer system positioned on the cart and including computer memory in communication with the processor;
a housing mounted on the cart;
at least one portable cassette system removably coupled to the housing, wherein the processor is in electronic communication with the input device, the display device, and the cassette system; and
wherein the cassette system comprises:
a cassette frame defining an interior divided into compartments;
drawers, each of the drawers occupying, and being slidably positioned in, at least one of the compartments;
radio frequency identifier (RFID) tags, each provided at one of the drawers and comprising an identifier for a respective one of the drawers stored thereon;
electronic readers, each in communication with the processor and provided at an interior of one of the compartments and configured to read the RFID tags when the RFID tags are placed within sufficient proximity of the electronic readers to be energized by the electronic readers, wherein the electronic readers comprise a first electronic reader capable of reading the RFID tag of a first one of the drawers which is in a closed position, but not capable of reading the RFID tag of an adjacent one of the drawers when the adjacent one of the drawers is in the closed position, and the first electronic reader is configured to read only the RFID tag of the first one of the drawers by way of a low power signal which is incapable of energizing the RFID tag of the adjacent one of the drawers;
each of the compartments having an actuator associated therewith in communication with the processor and associated with an actuator latch that is movable in response to operation of the associated actuator;
each of the drawers having at least one drawer latch, and each of the drawers capable of moving from a locked and closed position to an unlocked position in response to movement from the associated actuator latch;
a configuration map located in the computer memory, the configuration map comprising, for each respective one of the drawers, a unique drawer identifier and an indicator of a relative size and location of the respective one of the drawers in an interior of the cassette frame;
wherein the computer system is configured to receive output from the electronic readers comprising the identifiers, determine from which of the electronic identifiers each of the identifiers was received, identify the relative size and location of each of the drawers in the cassette frame based, at least in part, on the determination and visually depict the configuration map at a graphical user interface of the display device, where said visual depiction comprises representation of the relative size and location of the drawers, including relative to other ones of the drawers, and in association with a given cassette of the cassette system.