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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2004
William Wong, Encinitas, CA (US);
Vishnu R. Raja, Irvine, CA (US);
Alfredo M. Choperena, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
William Wong, Encinitas, CA (US);
Vishnu R. Raja, Irvine, CA (US);
Alfredo M. Choperena, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ (US);
Abstract
A cassette handling system for sterilant filled cassettes employs RFID or other electromagnetic signal technology to track the cassettes. A method for tracking the sterilant cassettes includes the steps of reading for the presence of a cassette within a cassette processing area of the sterilizer by transmitting a non-optical electromagnetic signal between the cassette and a receiver on the sterilizer, via the electromagnetic signal transmitting identifying information between the cassette and the receiver, and verifying that a proper cassette is loaded into the sterilizer based upon the identifying information.