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US 11,699,519 B1Granted
System for maintaining and controlling surgical tools
AssigneeIX Innovation LLC
InventorsJeffrey Roh, Justin Esterberg, John Cronin, Seth Cronin, Michael John Baker
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Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for maintaining and controlling surgical tools are disclosed. For each surgical tool, a surgeon can give verbal commands which can result in feedback provided by a synthesized voice or the execution of an action as instructed by the verbal command. The tools are monitored during use to ensure the tools remain within their operating parameters. The system alerts the surgeon should the tools approach their operational limitations.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a surgical system, a surgical plan for a surgical procedure using one or more processors;
- identifying, by the surgical system, surgical tools from a parameter database based on operational parameters in the parameter database corresponding to the surgical plan, wherein the parameter database stores maintenance requirements for the surgical tools;
- determining, by the surgical system, a subset of the surgical tools based on a maintenance status of the subset of the surgical tools retrieved from a maintenance database, wherein the maintenance database stores maintenance history of the surgical tools;
- configuring, by the surgical system, parameters of the subset of the surgical tools based on the operational parameters for performing the surgical procedure, wherein the parameters of the subset of the surgical tools are configurable for intraoperative modification;
- performing, by the surgical system, a first portion of the surgical procedure using a surgical robot and the subset of the surgical tools in accordance with the surgical plan;
- monitoring, by the surgical system, operation of the subset of the surgical tools during the surgical procedure using one or more sensors;
- generating, by the surgical system, an alert responsive to determining that at least one parameter of the parameters of the subset of the surgical tools is approaching a threshold based on the operational parameters in the parameter database;
- and
- in response to the alert, intraoperatively modifying a second portion of the surgical plan to be performed by:
- determining one or more surgical steps based on at least one surgical goal for a patient;
- selecting a second subset of the surgical tools for performing the one or more surgical steps;
- and
- determining a new configuration for the subset of the surgical tools based on maintenance records of the subset of the surgical tools and for maintaining the operational parameters within the threshold;
- and
- intraoperatively modifying, by the surgical system, the subset of the surgical tools to the new configuration by changing a value of the at least one parameter according to the second portion of the surgical plan.
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A surgical system comprising:
- one or more computer processors;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer instructions, which when executed by the one or more computer processors, cause the surgical system to:
- receive a surgical plan for a surgical procedure;
- identify surgical tools from a parameter database based on operational parameters in the parameter database corresponding to the surgical plan;
- determine a subset of the surgical tools based on a maintenance status of the subset of the surgical tools retrieved from a maintenance database;
- configure parameters of the subset of the surgical tools based on the operational parameters for performing the surgical procedure, wherein the parameters of the subset of surgical tools are configurable for intraoperative modification;
- perform a first portion of the surgical procedure using the subset of the surgical tools in accordance with the surgical plan using a surgical robot;
- monitor operation of the subset of the surgical tools during the surgical procedure using one or more sensors;
- generate an alert responsive to determining that at least one parameter of the parameters of the subset of the surgical tools is approaching a threshold based on the operational parameters in the parameter database;
- and
- in response to the alert, intraoperatively modifying a second portion of the surgical plan to be performed by:
- determining one or more surgical steps based on at least one surgical goal for a patient;
- selecting a second subset of the surgical tools for performing the one or more surgical steps;
- and
- determining a new configuration for the subset of the surgical tools based on maintenance records of the subset of the surgical tools and for maintaining the operational parameters within the threshold;
- and
- intraoperatively modifying the subset of the surgical tools to the new configuration by changing a value of the at least one parameter according to the second portion of the surgical plan.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- Identifying surgical tools from a parameter database based on operational parameters in the parameter database corresponding to a surgical plan for a surgical procedure;
- determining a subset of the surgical tools based on a maintenance status of the subset of the surgical tools retrieved from a maintenance database;
- and
- performing the surgical procedure using a surgical robot and the subset of the surgical tools in accordance with the surgical plan, wherein the surgical tools are configured with the operational parameters;
- configuring parameters of the subset of the surgical tools based on the operational parameters for performing the surgical procedure, wherein the parameters of the subset of the surgical tools are configurable for intraoperative modification;
- performing a first portion of the surgical procedure using the surgical robot and the subset of the surgical tools in accordance with the surgical plan;
- monitoring operation of the subset of the surgical tools during the surgical procedure using one or more sensors;
- generating an alert responsive to determining that at least one parameter of the parameters of the subset of the surgical tools is approaching a threshold based on the operational parameters in the parameter database;
- and
- in response to the alert, intraoperatively modifying a second portion of the surgical plan to be performed by:
- determining one or more surgical steps based on at least one surgical goal for a patient;
- selecting a second subset of the surgical tools for performing the one or more surgical steps;
- and
- determining a new configuration for the subset of the surgical tools based on maintenance records of the subset of the surgical tools and for maintaining the operational parameters within the threshold;
- and
- intraoperatively modifying the subset of the surgical tools to the new configuration by changing a value of the at least one parameter according to the second portion of the surgical plan.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.