Patent ID: 11925422
Assignee: MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, LP
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 11:
12. A method for tracking medical instruments further comprising:
providing a plurality of medical instruments and a medical instrument tracking system for use in tracking at least one of the plurality of medical instruments, the medical instrument tracking system having a display for displaying information regarding the at least one of a plurality of medical instruments;
continuously tracking movement of one or more of the plurality of medical instruments via the medical instrument tracking system;
displaying information relating to the one or more of the plurality of medical instruments on the display;
identifying one of the one or more of the plurality of medical instruments as a missing medical instrument when the medical instrument tracking system fails to detect the missing medical instrument; and
displaying on the display a predictive analysis of where the missing medical instrument is likely to be in response to identifying the missing medical instruments.