US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on Feb. 4 for "Surgical kit inspection systems and methods for inspecting surgical kits having parts of different types" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,413, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Surgical kit inspection systems and methods for inspecting surgical kits having parts of different types" was invented by Perry J. Simson (Bradenton, Fla.), Graeme A. Field (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Patrick M. Caldwell (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical kit inspection systems and methods are provided for inspecting surgical kits having parts of different types. The surgical kit inspection system comprises a vision unit including a first camera unit and a second camera unit to capture images of parts of a first type and a second ty...