ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,547, issued on July 22, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Collapsible detection antenna for surgical articles" was invented by Fazel Yavari (Portage, Mich.), Michael Peterson (Richland, Mich.), Brian James VanDerWoude (Portage, Mich.) and Bryan Matthew Ulmer (Grand Rapids, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collapsible detection antenna to detect electromagnetic tags of surgical articles in an operating room includes an antenna assembly configured to detect the electromagnetic tags. The antenna assembly is configured to move between a deployed configuration and a collapsed configuration. In the deployed configurati...