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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.:

US 10658078 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020

Filed:

Feb. 18, 2019

Nonresonant enclosure for scanning medical articles

Applicant:

Meps Real-time, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jimmy C. Caputo, San Diego, CA (US);

Shariq Hussain, Vista, CA (US);

Jeffrey Shamblin, San Marcos, CA (US);

James P. Williams, Jr., Carefree, AZ (US);

Paul M. Elizondo, II, Escondido, CA (US);

Assignee:

MEPS Real-Time, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);

Attorneys:

Thomas A. Runk

Brooks Kushman P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Ryan W Sherwin

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G16H 40/40 (2018.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2018.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06Q 50/22 (2018.01); H01Q 1/22 (2006.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G16H 20/00 (2018.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); G16H 10/00 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G16H 40/40 (2018.01); G06F 19/00 (2013.01); G06F 19/30 (2013.01); G06F 19/326 (2013.01); G06F 19/3462 (2013.01); G06K 7/10168 (2013.01); G06K 7/10178 (2013.01); G06K 7/10316 (2013.01); G06K 7/10356 (2013.01); G06K 7/10415 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); G06Q 30/00 (2013.01); G06Q 50/22 (2013.01); G16H 10/00 (2018.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G16H 20/00 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); H01Q 1/22 (2013.01); H01Q 1/2216 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for monitoring the inventory of a medical storage container such as a tray that has a required inventory of medical articles. An enclosure is used to isolate, scan, and take an inventory of the tray or other container of medical articles. The tray and each of the medical articles in the tray have RFID tags. The enclosure having a size differing from the size needed for a resonant frequency at the RFID frequency of operation of the tags. A probe is used to create a robust electromagnetic field standing wave of constructive interference in the enclosure and a program compares the scanned present inventory of the tray to the required inventory database and indicates any differences. Expired and recalled articles and substitutes for recalled articles are identified.

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