US Patent Issued to MEPS Real-Time on July 22 for "RFID medical article tracking system and method" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,955, issued on July 22, was assigned to MEPS Real-Time Inc. (San Diego).

"RFID medical article tracking system and method" was invented by Jimmy C. Caputo (San Diego), Shariq Hussain (Vista, Calif.), Jeffrey Shamblin (San Marcos, Calif.), James P. Williams Jr. (Carefree, Ariz.) and Paul M. Elizondo II (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for managing the contents of a medical storage container, such as a tray, that has an inventory of medical articles. A Faraday cage enclosure is used to isolate, scan, and inventory the container. The container and each of the medical articles in the container have a ...