Patents by Inventor Paul Dominic Callaghan

Paul Dominic Callaghan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Surgical Instrument RFID Tag Reading Apparatus and Method, and Surgical Instrument Tracking System
    Publication number: 20170224438
    Abstract: Surgical instrument RFID tag reading apparatus (10) comprises an interrogation zone (12) for receiving a surgical instrument set (14) comprising: a plurality of surgical instruments, each having a respective RFID tag containing identification information; an RFID tag reader (16); RF antenna (18) arranged to transmit an RF signal (20) and arranged to receive RF return signals from at least some of the RFID tags; guidance apparatus (22) arranged to cause predetermined relative movement between the RFID tags on the surgical instruments and the RF signal; and a controller (24) arranged to: receive the surgical instrument identification information from the RFID tag reader for each RFID tag from which an RF return signal is received; compare the received surgical instrument identification information with a surgical instrument list of the set; and; determine whether surgical instrument identification information has been received for each of the surgical instruments on the surgical instrument list, and if not, gen
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Martin Stanley Johnson, Mark Howard Lynch, Andrew O'Donnell, Paul Dominic Callaghan