US Patent Issued to Smart Wave Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for monitoring sharps levels in secured sharps containers" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,889, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Smart Wave Technologies Inc. (Toronto).

"Systems and methods for monitoring sharps levels in secured sharps containers" was invented by Volodimir Bondarenko (Toronto), Sean Bellinger (Mounds View, Minn.), Clemente Receno (Toronto), Dan Gabbay (Toronto), Alejandro Cabrera (Toronto) and Mookwan Kang (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for measuring the fill level of sharps in sharps containers are described. The system includes sensors for detecting a fill level in a sharps container and communications systems for reporting a sharps container fill status to local personnel t...