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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2019
Medtronic Navigation, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Joseph Moctezuma, Golden, CO (US);
Craig Drager, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Joseph Thomas Cilke, Broomfield, CO (US);
Victor D. Snyder, Erie, CO (US);
Wei-Shyang Yang, Lafayette, CO (US);
Justin Kemp, Erie, CO (US);
Andrew Wald, Denver, CO (US);
Jerald Lamont Redmond, Germantown, TN (US);
Shai Ronen, Louisville, CO (US);
Nikhil Mahendra, Broomfield, CO (US);
Medtronic Navigation, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Abstract
A system and apparatus is disclosed to automatically determine the identification and selected information relating to instruments. The identification information may be read or determined by various reader systems and then transferred for various purposes. The identification information may be stored on the instrument with a storage system or printing and/or recalled from a memory once the identification is made.