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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2017
Applicant:
Meps Real-time, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jimmy C. Caputo, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
MEPS Real-Time, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2018.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G16H 10/65 (2018.01); G06K 7/10366 (2013.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G06F 19/3456 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for bulk encoding medical items in a tracking system in a healthcare facility comprises attaching to each of a plurality of identical medical items a blank RFID tag. When activated simultaneously, the serial numbers of all RFID tags on all the identical medical items are read and their serial numbers are associated with the pre-stored characteristics of the medical item in a data base. The RFID tags are blank in that they include no human-readable data concerning the medical article to which the RFID tag is attached. A data mining system and method are provided for mining the database.