# US 12,508,086 B2 · System and method for voice-control of operating room equipment

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- Number: US 12,508,086 B2
- Document ID: US12508086B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 18/082,346
- Filed: 2022-12-15
- Published: 2023-04-20
- Granted: 2025-12-30
- Earliest claimed: 2020-09-10
- Assignees: Jerome Canady Research Institute for Advanced Biological and Technological Sciences
- Applicants: Jerome Canady Research Institute for Advanced Biological and Technological Sciences
- Inventors: Jerome Canady; Taisen Zhuang; Changhan Jun
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12508086B2

## CPC

- A61B 34/25: {User interfaces for surgical systems}
- A61B 18/1206: {Generators therefor}
- A61B 34/37: Leader-follower robots (A61B34/35 takes precedence)
- G06F 3/167: {Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback}
- G06F 21/32: using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
- G06F 21/602: {Providing cryptographic facilities or services}
- G06F 21/606: {by securing the transmission between two devices or processes}
- G10L 15/19: Grammatical context, e.g. disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word sequence rules
- G10L 15/22: Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
- H04R 1/04: Structural association of microphone with electric circuitry therefor (in electric hearing aids H04R25/00)
- H04R 3/00: Circuits for transducers (arrangements for producing a reverberation or echo sound G10K15/08; amplifiers H03F)
- A61B 34/30: Surgical robots
- A61B 2017/00203: {with speech control or speech recognition}
- A61B 2034/256: {having a database of accessory information, e.g. including context sensitive help or scientific articles}
- A61B 2560/0493: controlled by voice
- G10L 2015/088: {Word spotting}
- G10L 2015/223: {Execution procedure of a spoken command}
- A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
- H04R: LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS (producing sounds with frequency not determined by supply frequency G10K)

## Abstract

A system and method for voice control of operating room electrical equipment. The system comprises an electrosurgical generator having a controller with a memory, a graphical user interface controlled by said controller, a power module, a field programmable gate array, and a voice recognition module connected to said field programmable gate array, a data storage connected to said controller in said electrosurgical generator; and electrical operating room equipment connected to said voice recognition module, wherein said electrical operating room equipment is configured to receive and decrypt encrypted commands from said voice recognition module. The audio input to the voice recognition system may be a microphone chip in a electrosurgical accessory.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for voice control of electrical operating room equipment with a speech recognition system in an electrosurgical generator, the method comprising:
activating a microphone on an electrosurgical accessory connected to said electrosurgical generator;
communicating audio input received by said microphone in said electrosurgical accessory to the speech recognition system in the electrosurgical generator in response to activation of the microphone in the electrosurgical accessory;
detecting a triggering event with the speech recognition system;
identifying a voice instruction with said speech recognition system;
validating grammar in an identified voice instruction;
notifying the user that a voice command has been validated;
encrypting the validated command;
transmitting the encrypted validated command to electrical operating room equipment;
receiving the encrypted validated command at the electrical operating room equipment;
decrypting the received encrypted validated command at the electrical operating room equipment;
determining at the electrical operating room equipment whether the decrypted command is valid;
performing a safety evaluation on said decrypted command;
if said decrypted command is determined to be safe, executing said decrypted command on the electrical operating room equipment; and
notifying the user whether the decrypted command has been executed.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method for voice control of electrical operating room equipment according to claim 1, wherein the electrical operating room equipment is the electrosurgical generator.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method for voice control of electrical operating room equipment according to claim 1, wherein the electrical operating room equipment is a robotic surgical system.