Patent ID: 8522979
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: A61L,B07C

Abstract:
1. A recovery processing system for medical devices that can be recovered from a sharps container that is processed for reuse, said sharps container including medical devices and medical waste that should be destroyed, said recovery processing system comprising: (a) a processing station configured to perform an operation on one of a sharps container and a portion of its contents disposed within the processing station, wherein said operation facilitates recovery of reprocessable medical devices from the sharps container; (b) a conveyor configured to controllably convey one of a sharps container and the portion of the contents of the sharps container along a route said route directed one of into and out of the processing station, wherein the conveyor passes through the processing station; (c) a sensor that senses when one of the sharps container and the portion of the contents of the sharps container are at least one of the following: (d) a memory in which machine instructions are stored; and (e) a controller coupled to the sensor and the memory, said controller executing the machine instructions stored in the memory such that one of the following functions is enabled: