Patent ID: 9066668
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: A61B,G01R,H01M,H02J,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A video laryngoscope comprising a device body which comprises a handle, a battery pack comprising one or more batteries and a memory storing a value indicative of the remaining available rated capacity of the one or more batteries, a laryngoscope arm extending from the handle, the handle having a first end adjacent to the arm and an opposed second end, the video laryngoscope comprising a usage recording device operable to determine when the video laryngoscope is operated and to update the value stored in the memory responsive to such usage to reflect the consumption of power from the one or more batteries resulting from the said operation, wherein the battery pack comprises an RFID tag, including the memory, and the body of the video laryngoscope includes a solenoid aerial in the body of the video laryngoscope to read from and write to the RFID tag memory.