US Patent Issued to Tally Surgical on Jan. 13 for "Systems, apparatus and methods for labeling, packaging, and tracking surgical articles" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,639, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Tally Surgical Inc. (Ladera Ranch, Calif.).

"Systems, apparatus and methods for labeling, packaging, and tracking surgical articles" was invented by Brian E. Stewart (Ladera Ranch, Calif.), William Stewart (San Clemente, Calif.) and Jan Svoboda (Matthews, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical articles, such as sponges, are provided in a pack which contains individual surgical articles having UHF RFID or other electronic labels which provide both (a) unique identification information for each article as well as (b) unique identification information for all articles in the pack. Prior to t...