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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2022
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Brian James Vanderwoude, Portage, MI (US);
Caroline Weinberg, Portage, MI (US);
Fazel Yavari, Portage, MI (US);
Kristopher Kendall Biegler, Madison, WI (US);
Jonathon Emanuel Koenig, Waukesha, WI (US);
Alex Surasky-Ysasi, Madison, WI (US);
Tyler Toy, Union City, CA (US);
Rachel Wallace, Monona, WI (US);
Colin Vincent Beney, Sun Prairie, WI (US);
Kenneth Lee Soliva, Madison, WI (US);
Stryker Corporation, Portage, MI (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for managing surgical sponges. A dispenser assembly coupled to a main support includes an internal or first storage location to removably receive a carton of sponge sorters, and an external or second storage location to removably support a carton of surgical draping. At least one arm may be supported on the housing and movable between an undeployed position and a deployed position. The arm may include weighing means to measure a weight of the surgical sponge being disposed in a sponge sorter supported by the arm. The arm may be a cantilever and abeam load cell may be disposed within a channel of a beam. A processor may determine fluid weight based on measured weight and dry weight correlated with the surgical sponge being counted out as detected with a data reader. The processor may estimate blood loss to be displayed on a display.