US Patent Issued to STERISMART on Dec. 23 for "Image recognition method and program for medical instrument inventory management" (American, Pakistani Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,914, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to STERISMART LLC (Forney, Texas).

"Image recognition method and program for medical instrument inventory management" was invented by Joseph Dembesky (Forney, Texas), Patrick DeWitt (Ben Lomond, Calif.) and Khizar Hussain (Islamabad).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for scanning medical instrument trays to determine which items are present and which are missing. This is accomplished by receiving, prior to an event, pre-event media content capturing a medical tray, then executing a model trained to recognize instruments on the medical tray, resulti...