Patent ID: 11961613
Assignee: MEDVISION AI CORP.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An inventory system comprising:
one or more shelving units that each includes shelves for storing medical supplies, a control system, and a communications interface, wherein:
each of the shelves includes shelf locations that are discrete locations spread laterally thereacross at which weight supported by the shelf is measured with weight sensors independent of all others of the shelf locations of that same shelf, and each of the shelf locations includes one or more of the weight sensors for measuring the weight supported thereat,
the control system is in communication with the one or more weight sensors for receiving measurement signals therefrom and causing the communications interface to send weight measurements for each of the shelf locations of each of the shelves determined according to the measurement signals, and
each of the one or more shelving units further includes an activity sensor configured to detect activity associated with one or more of the shelf locations, and the control system is in communication with the activity sensor for receiving activity signals therefrom and causing the communications interface to send activity information according to the activity signals; and

an inventory computing system in communication with each of the one or more shelving units via a network to receive the weight measurements for the shelf locations and the activity signals, wherein the inventory computing system associates each of the shelf locations with only one of the medical supplies at a time, and determines a quantity of each of the medical supplies stored on each of the shelf locations according to the one or more weight measurements for the shelf location associated therewith and the activity information.