US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 12 for "Surgical sponges and instrument detection during a surgical procedure" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,373, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Surgical sponges and instrument detection during a surgical procedure" was invented by Brian James VanDerWoude (Portage, Mich.) and Justin Andrews (Schoolcraft, Mich.).

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 unique identification information relative to the surgical sponge. The system and me...