Patent Document ID: 9361530
Application ID: 14372178
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for preventing contamination with use of non-contact human input, comprising electronic operations performed by an input-controllable electronic system including: tracking, with an electronic database, a contamination status of an object in a contamination-sensitive environment using an object handling workflow, the object handling workflow including a plurality of stages; outputting a prompt, with an electronic display device, to a human user from the input-controllable electronic system at a stage of the object handling workflow, wherein the prompt is outputted to the human user to obtain a human input from the human user for use during the object handling workflow; capturing the human input in the contamination-sensitive environment with an electronic sensor, the human input provided for control of the input-controllable electronic system, and the human input provided by a form of non-contact human input to the input-controllable electronic system in response to the prompt, wherein the human input is captured at the stage of the object handling workflow; performing input recognition upon data produced from the capturing of the non-contact human input; determining a command from the input recognition to perform in the input-controllable electronic system, wherein the command relates to an activity to be performed within the object handling workflow, wherein the activity is associated with the object; and performing the command in the input-controllable electronic system, the command causing the activity to be performed within the object handling workflow.