Patent Document ID: 10085619
Application ID: 15622765
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for preventing contamination with use of non-contact human audio input, comprising electronic operations performed by an input-controllable electronic system, the electronic operations including: outputting an electronic system prompt to a human user in a contamination-sensitive environment, the electronic system prompt used to obtain human audio input from the human user at a stage of an object handling workflow for a reusable medical equipment object; capturing the human audio input in the contamination-sensitive environment; determining a command of the input-controllable electronic system from speech recognition on the human audio input, wherein the command invokes a human-selectable option in the input-controllable electronic system; performing the command in the input-controllable electronic system, the command causing an activity to be performed with the input-controllable electronic system wherein the activity changes a tracked state of the reusable medical equipment object within the object handling workflow; and communicating information to a tracking system to indicate performance of the activity, the tracking system configured to record the tracked state of the reusable medical equipment object and actions performed with the reusable medical equipment object in connection with the object handling workflow.