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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2004
Applicant:
Doug Vo Truong, Gardern Grove, CA (US);
Inventor:
Doug Vo Truong, Gardern Grove, CA (US);
Assignee:
Ethicon, Inc., Sommerville, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for tracking sterilant cassettes within a sterilizer involves reading for the presence of a cassette within a cassette processing area of the sterilizer by reading a first visual code on the cassette with a scanner and with the same scanner reading for the presence of a second visual code in a spent cassette collection box. Upon successfully reading the second visual code it is thus known that the spent cassette collection box is present and has capacity to receive the cassette.