Patent ID: 11951225
Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a sterilization case configured to store medical instruments during sterilizing of the medical instruments;
a tracking component that is battery-powered and that is configured to collect, store and transmit one or more time parameters associated with the sterilization case, wherein the tracking component comprises a timer configured to count or measure the one or more time parameters;
a switching component configured to perform operations comprising:
detecting an initiation condition indicative of an initiation of a first autoclave process that sterilizes the medical instruments in the sterilization case, wherein power is supplied to the tracking component prior to the initiation of the first autoclave process;
stopping, based on the initiation of the first autoclave process, supplying of the power to the tracking component;
detecting a completion condition indicative of a completion of the first autoclave process; and
resuming, based on the completion of the first autoclave process, the supplying of the power to the tracking component; and

a computing device including:
one or more processors; and
memory having stored therein first instructions that, upon being executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to:
determine a first complete time at which the first autoclave process is completed by subtracting a first time interval from an obtain time at which the one or more time parameters are obtained by the computing device from the tracking component, wherein the first time interval corresponds to a first time period between the completion of the first autoclave process and the obtain time at which the one or more time parameters are obtained by the computing device from the tracking component, and wherein the first time interval is included in the one or more time parameters.