US Patent Issued to Magvation on July 15 for "System and methods for providing inductive sensing of sharps and other medical instruments" (Colorado, California, Wisconsin, Ohio, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,411, issued on July 15, was assigned to Magvation LLC (Las Vegas).

"System and methods for providing inductive sensing of sharps and other medical instruments" was invented by Michael P. Koclanes (Johnstown, Colo.), Bill Brown (Chandler, Ariz.), Lakmal Wijesekara (Superior, Colo.), Jason Howe (Fallbrook, Calif.), Niren Angle (Danville, Calif.), Jon Robinson (Elm Grove, Wis.) and Paul Gallese (Solon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a surgical needle counting system for an operating room. A system includes counting apparatus and a removable collecting enclosure positioned at an exit of the count...