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US 12,685,602 B2Granted
Robotically-assisted cochlear implant system
AssigneesOhio State Innovation Foundation, Research Institute At Nationwide Children's Hospital
InventorsDavid Hoelzle, Oliver F. Adunka, Gregory Wiet
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Abstract
A robotic system for cochlear implantation (CI) is described herein. The system includes a robotic tool configured to hold a cochlear implant electrode array and a controller that is operably coupled to the robotic tool. The controller includes a processor and a memory. The memory has computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the robotic tool with the degrees of freedom of a human hand.
Claims19
A robotic system for cochlear implantation (CI), comprising:
- a robotic tool configured to hold a cochlear implant electrode array;
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- a controller operably coupled to the robotic tool, the controller comprising a processor and a memory operably coupled to the processor, the memory having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the robotic tool with a plurality of degrees of freedom comparable to a human hand and cause the processor to constrain an end effector of the robotic tool to a region with a largest dimension of 3 mm or less.
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