- Patent Title: Cutting tools, systems and methods for navigated bone alterations
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Application No.: US15952876Application Date: 2018-04-13
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Publication No.: US10702344B2Publication Date: 2020-07-07
- Inventor: Samantha McCabe , Andre Novomir Hladio
- Applicant: INTELLIJOINT SURGICAL INC.
- Applicant Address: CA Kitchener
- Assignee: INTELLIJOINT SURGICAL INC.
- Current Assignee: INTELLIJOINT SURGICAL INC.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Kitchener
- Main IPC: A61B17/00
- IPC: A61B17/00 ; A61B34/20 ; A61B17/16 ; A61B17/17 ; A61B90/00 ; A61B17/14 ; A61B17/15 ; A61B34/30 ; A61B34/00

Abstract:
Cutting tools, systems and methods for navigated procedures are provided. A cutting tool (e.g. oscillating blade, etc.) for a power tool has an optically trackable feature in a defined positional relationship relative to a cutting feature of the cutting tool. The trackable feature may include reflective material applied to a surface (e.g. a recessed blade surface). The trackable feature is be imaged by a camera integral with or attached to the power tool and provided to a computing unit of a navigation system to determine a relative pose of the cutting feature and camera. The camera may also track a patient's bone such that the computing unit may determine a relative position of the bone and camera. The unit then computes a relative pose of the cutting feature with respect to the patient's bone and provides same for determining display information and/or to a robotic controller for procedural control.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180303561A1 CUTTING TOOLS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NAVIGATED BONE ALTERATIONS Public/Granted day:2018-10-25
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