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US 12,734,004 B2Granted
Surgical robotics system with tool axis registration
AssigneeMAKO Surgical Corp.
InventorsRadu Iorgulescu, Carinne Cecile Granchi, Dennis Moses, Jason Robert Wojcik
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Abstract
A surgical robotics method includes capturing points along a surface of a cutting tool by tracking a probe, deriving a tool axis from relative locations of the points, and controlling, using the tool axis, a robot that interfaces with the cutting tool.
Claims20
A surgical robotics method, comprising:
- capturing points along a surface of a cutting tool by tracking a probe;
- deriving a tool axis from relative locations of the points;
- and
- controlling, using the tool axis, a robot that interfaces with the cutting tool.
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A surgical robotics system, comprising:
- a robot;
- a cutting tool configured to interface with the robot;
- a probe;
- and
- a tracking system configured to capture points along a surface of the cutting tool by tracking the probe;
- a computer system programmed to:
- derive a tool axis from relative locations of the points;
- and
- control the robot using the tool axis.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.