Patent ID: 11963827
Assignee: STRYKER CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 19:
20. A surgical system for accounting of surgical sponges, the surgical system comprising:
a handheld scanner including an antenna capable of emitting a radio frequency detection field, wherein the handheld scanner is operable in a first operating mode to scan in sponges to a surgical procedure and in a second operating mode to scan out sponges from the surgical procedure;
a first package including packaging, a first surgical sponge, and a second surgical sponge, with the first surgical sponge and the second surgical sponge being in the packaging,
the first surgical sponge including a first RF tag and the second surgical sponge including a second RF tag, the first RF tag including a first memory segment, a second memory segment, and a third memory segment, the first memory segment being programmed with a package identifier, the second memory segment being programmed with a first unique identifier, and the third memory segment being programmed with an object type, wherein the package identifier is different from the first unique identifier, and wherein the second RF tag includes a fourth memory segment, the fourth memory segment being programmed with the package identifier, with the package identifier programmed on both the first RF tag and the second RF tag being the same; and
control circuitry adapted to:
receive a response signal from the first RF tag, the response signal comprising data received from the first RF tag, with the response signal including data representing the package identifier and the object type;
determine a number of surgical sponges supposed to be in the first package based on the response signal;
determine a number of sponges that are in the first package; and
control a visual display to display data that represents object type based on the object type programmed on the first RF tag.