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Surgical instrument tray shipping tote identification system and methods of using same

  • US 7,227,469 B2
  • Filed: 11/22/2004
  • Issued: 06/05/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for identifying surgical instrument trays and surgical instrument tray shipping totes, comprising:

  • a chassis;

    a conveyor system defining a path of travel supported by the; and

    a reader station attached to the chassis by a frame and comprising an RFID transceiver, a bar code reader, a control circuit and an indicator, wherein the bar code reader is configured to read a bar coded shipping label on an instrument tray shipping tote, the RFID transceiver is configured to read information from an RFID tag associated with instrument tray in the tote, and the control circuit is configured to perform a comparison between information read from the bar coded shipping label and the RFID tag with stored information and to activate the indicator in response to this comparison.

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