US Patent Issued to Stryker on Feb. 25 for "System and method for managing surgical articles during a surgical procedure" (Michigan, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,076, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"System and method for managing surgical articles during a surgical procedure" was invented by Fazel Yavari (Portage, Mich.), Justin Andrews (Schoolcraft, Mich.), Brian James VanDerWoude (Portage, Mich.) and Dwight Fowler (Holly Springs, N.C.).

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 id...