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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2014
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
The United States of America; As Represented BY the Secretary of Defence, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Washington, DC (US);
The United States of America; As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Ip Counsel of the Navy Office of Naval Research, Washington, DC (US);
Chad Gordon, Lutherville, MD (US);
Mehran Armand, Fulton, MD (US);
Ryan Murphy, Columbia, MD (US);
Gerald Grant, Goshen, KY (US);
Peter Liacouras, North Potomac, MD (US);
Kevin Wolfe, Lutherville, MD (US);
Other;
Abstract
A computer-assisted surgical system can include a donor sub-system and a recipient sub-system. The donor sub-system includes a first reference unit having a first trackable element, a fragment reference unit having a second trackable element, and a first detector configured to provide at least one of a first signal corresponding to a detected location of one or more of the first trackable element and the second trackable element. The recipient sub-system includes a second reference unit having a third trackable element, and a second detector configured to provide at least one of a second signal corresponding to a detected location of at least the third trackable element.