Patent ID: 9189769
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: G06K,G06Q,G16H,G16Z,H01Q

Abstract:
1. A medical storage container re-supply system for reading a data carrier that is attached to a medical storage container and a data carrier attached to a medical article located in the storage container to manage the inventory of the storage container, the data carriers being responsive to electromagnetic energy (EM) of a frequency f 1 in response to which the data carriers provide identification data, the system comprising: a metallic enclosure having an internal storage area, the metallic enclosure further having electrically conductive walls that completely surround the internal storage area and any medical article with associated data carrier placed therein to establish a Faraday cage, the enclosure having a natural frequency of resonance f a probe disposed at a metallic wall of the metallic enclosure within the metallic enclosure, the probe configured to inject electromagnetic energy of a frequency f an active impedance matching circuit coupled to the probe and configured to actively more closely match impedance of the probe to impedance of the metallic enclosure at frequency f a medical storage container having a data carrier identifying the container, the container being located within the internal storage area of the metallic enclosure and containing a medical article with an associated data carrier identifying that medical article, both data carriers being responsive to EM at frequency f a receiving antenna disposed within the metallic enclosure and configured to receive the identification data provided by the data carriers; a predetermined required inventory list of medical articles for the storage container; a non-volatile memory on which is stored the predetermined required inventory list of the and details of the medical article; a processor programmed to receive the identification data of the storage container and the identification data of the article in the storage container, locate the predetermined required storage container inventory list in the memory through the identification of the storage container, locate the details of the medical article identified in the storage container in the memory through the identification data of the medical article, and compare the details of the medical article against the required inventory list of the storage container to manage the inventory of the container.