US Patent Issued to Covidien on July 28 for "Surgical inventory systems" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,943, issued on July 28, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical inventory systems" was invented by Jason M. Mucilli (Lakewood, Colo.), Edward L. Brannan (Erie, Colo.), Richard L. Croft (Mead, Colo.), Jennifer M. Layton (Broomfield, Colo.), Benjamin J. Noe (Erie, Colo.) and Anthony V. Locatelli (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventory system configured for reducing variability in detecting and counting surgical items includes an RFID tag affixed to a surgical item, a signal generator configured to generate an energizing signal for the RFID tag, an antenna operably coupled to the signal generator, ...