Patent ID: 8011905

Claim:
A surgical system, comprising: a surgical console having a cassette receiving portion; a cassette sized and shaped to be received in the cassette receiving portion of the surgical console, the cassette comprising: a housing; a pressure sensor coupled to the housing; a bar code, located on the cassette; and pressure sensor calibration data, stored in the bar code, that includes unique information specific to operation of the pressure sensor coupled to the housing and determined for that unique pressure sensor by testing that unique pressure sensor on the cassette at manufacture; wherein the surgical console comprises an optical reader configured to read the pressure sensor calibration data when the cassette is in the cassette receiving portion of the surgical console; wherein software contained within the console is configured to automatically make appropriate adjustments in operating parameters of the console, in response to the read pressure sensor calibration data; and wherein said pressure sensor calibration data for multiple cassettes are determined by testing the pressure sensor on each cassette at manufacture.