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US 12,622,786 B2Granted
Patient-specific implant design, manufacture and platform with clinical and third-party data acquisition
AssigneeCarlsmed, Inc.
InventorsNiall Patrick Casey, Sarah Jauregui, Jeremy Winston
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Abstract
Systems and methods for designing patient-specific orthopedic implants. The systems and methods can include automated collection protocols for available third-party data to use to generate surgical plans or patient-specific orthopedic implant designs. The system can identify triggers for collecting third-party data. The system can determine a confidence score for the collected third-party data based on the type of data, the source of the data, and the similarity of the data to patient data. The system can select parameters in the third-party data to integrate into designing a patient-specific implant or patient treatment.
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A method of manufacturing and implanting a patient-specific interbody cage, the method comprising:
- generating a first cage design of a first patient-specific interbody cage configured to be positioned between an upper vertebra and a lower vertebra to achieve a first anatomical correction for a spine of a subject when implanted in the subject, wherein the first patient-specific interbody cage has an upper contoured porous surface to contact a lower vertebral endplate of the upper vertebra, and a lower contoured porous surface to contact an upper endplate of the lower vertebra;
- performing at least one design check on the first cage design;
- determining patient data of the subject includes at least one edge case pathology based on the at least one design check;
- in response to determining the patient data includes the at least one edge case pathology, collecting, via a network connection, third-party data from one or more third-party sources on remote servers, wherein the third-party data is associated with the at least one edge case pathology;
- determining a confidence score for the third-party data based on one or more characteristics of the one or more third-party sources or the third-party data;
- in response to the confidence score being above a threshold, selecting one or more parameters from the third-party data;
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- generating a second cage design for the first patient-specific interbody cage based on the patient data and the one or more parameters from the third-party data;
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- after determining the second cage design meets a design threshold,
- manufacturing the first patient-specific interbody cage according to the second cage design;
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- accessing a disc space between the upper vertebra and the lower vertebra;
- implanting the first patient-specific interbody cage at the disc space.
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A method comprising:
- generating a first patient-specific orthopedic implant design based on patient data associated with a patient;
- performing at least one design check on the first patient-specific orthopedic implant design;
- determining the patient data includes at least one edge case pathology based on the at least one design check;
- in response to determining the patient data includes the at least one edge case pathology, collecting, via a network connection, third-party data from one or more third-party sources on remote servers, wherein the third-party data is associated with the at least one edge case pathology;
- determining a confidence score for the third-party data based on one or more characteristics of one or more sources or the third-party data;
- in response to the confidence score being above a threshold, selecting one or more parameters from the third-party data;
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- generating a second patient-specific orthopedic implant design based on the patient data and the one or more parameters from the third-party data.
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A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
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- one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform a process comprising:
- generating a first patient-specific orthopedic implant design based on patient data associated with a patient;
- performing at least one design check on the first patient-specific orthopedic implant design;
- determining the patient data includes at least one edge case pathology based on the at least one design check;
- in response to determining the patient data includes the at least one edge case pathology, collecting, via a network connection, third-party data from one or more third-party sources on remote servers, wherein the third-party data is associated with the at least one edge case pathology;
- determining a confidence score for the third-party data based on one or more characteristics of one or more sources or the third-party data;
- in response to the confidence score being above a threshold, selecting one or more parameters from the third-party data;
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- generating a second patient-specific orthopedic implant design based on the patient data and the one or more parameters from the third-party data.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
- generating a first patient-specific orthopedic implant design based on patient data associated with a patient;
- performing at least one design check on the first patient-specific orthopedic implant design;
- determining the patient data includes at least one edge case pathology based on the at least one design check;
- in response to determining the patient data includes the at least one edge case pathology, collecting, via a network connection, third-party data from one or more third-party sources on remote servers, wherein the third-party data is associated with the at least one edge case pathology;
- determining a confidence score for the third-party data based on one or more characteristics of one or more sources or the third-party data;
- in response to the confidence score being above a threshold, selecting one or more parameters from the third-party data;
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- generating a second patient-specific orthopedic implant design based on the patient data and the one or more parameters from the third-party data.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- determining patient data associated with a patient includes at least one edge case pathology;
- in response to determining the patient data includes the at least one edge case pathology, collecting, via a network connection, third-party data from one or more third-party sources on remote servers, wherein the third-party data is associated with the at least one edge case pathology;
- determining a confidence score for the third-party data based on one or more characteristics of at least one of
- the one or more third-party sources, or
- the third-party data;
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- in response to the confidence score being above a threshold, generating a three-dimensional patient-specific orthopedic implant design based on the patient data and the third-party data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.