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US 12,765,961 B2Granted
System and method for surgical instrument use prediction
AssigneeCovidien LP
InventorBrian A. Rockrohr
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Abstract
A surgical robotic system includes a controller configured to access usage data pertaining to a surgical instrument and to estimate a predicted number of uses remaining for the surgical instrument. The controller is further configured to enable or disable the surgical instrument based on the predicted number of uses remaining.
Claims12
A surgical robotic system comprising:
- a robotic arm;
- a surgical instrument configured to couple to the robotic arm;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- access usage data pertaining the surgical instrument, wherein the usage data includes a maximum use time, a number of previous uses, and a previous use time;
- calculate an average use time by dividing the previous use time by the number of previous uses;
- calculate a predicted number of uses remaining for the surgical instrument based on the maximum use time and the average use time;
- and
- disable the surgical instrument based on the predicted number of uses remaining in response to the predicted number of uses remaining being less than one.
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A method for controlling a surgical system, the method comprising:
- accessing usage data pertaining to a surgical instrument, wherein the usage data includes a maximum use time, a number of previous uses, and a previous use time;
- calculating an average use time by dividing the previous use time by the number of previous uses;
- calculating a predicted number of uses remaining for the surgical instrument, based on the maximum use time and the average use time;
- and
- disabling the surgical instrument based on the predicted number of uses remaining in response to the predicted number of uses remaining being less than one, wherein disabling includes preventing actuation of the surgical instrument in response to user input.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.