US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 25 for "System and method for managing surgical articles during a surgical procedure" (Michigan, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,935, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"System and method for managing surgical articles during a surgical procedure" was invented by Fazel Yavari (Portage, Mich.), Justin Michael Andrews (Schoolcraft, Mich.), Brian James VanDerWoude (Portage, Mich.) and Dwight Fowler (Holly Springs, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method of managing one or more surgical articles, wherein the surgical article can include a surgical sponge comprising an identification element, and wherein managing can include counting, locating, or both. The identification element can be a RFID tag. The RFID tag stores u...