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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2021
Applicant:
Steris Corporation, Mentor, OH (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
STERIS Corporation, Mentor, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 71/08 (2006.01); B65B 53/02 (2006.01); G09F 3/02 (2006.01); A61B 90/90 (2016.01); A61B 90/98 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 71/08 (2013.01); A61B 90/90 (2016.02); B65B 53/02 (2013.01); G09F 3/02 (2013.01); A61B 90/98 (2016.02); G09F 2003/0251 (2013.01); G09F 2003/0272 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of enclosing a surgical item identification tag in a fluorinated shrink wrap, including cutting one or more elongated pieces from a shrink wrap tube to form cut shrink wrap pieces, placing cut shrink wrap pieces into cavities in a tray, inserting an identification tag into each of the cut shrink wrap pieces, heating the cut shrink wrap pieces to cause the cut shrink wrap pieces to shrink and wrap around the identification tag, sealing an upper end and lower end of the cut shrink wrap pieces.