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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11020187 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2017

Tracked suction tool

Applicant:

Synaptive Medical Inc., Toronto, CA;

Inventors:

Leila Kheradpir, Toronto, CA;

Kyle Richard Dupont, Toronto, CA;

Jakub Jankowski, Toronto, CA;

Assignee:

SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC., Toronto, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:

Amelie R Davis

Assistant Examiner:

John Denny Li

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 5/06 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61M 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/1495 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/20 (2016.02); A61B 5/0077 (2013.01); A61B 5/061 (2013.01); A61B 5/064 (2013.01); A61B 90/36 (2016.02); A61B 90/39 (2016.02); A61M 1/0047 (2013.01); A61M 1/0086 (2014.02); A61B 5/1495 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00477 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00725 (2013.01); A61B 2034/207 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2051 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2055 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3945 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3983 (2016.02);
Abstract

A device and method is provided for a trackable suction tool for surgical use. The tracked suction tool includes a tubular handle with a main tube and an entrance tube extending from the main tube, a flattened section of the main tube with a suction-regulating orifice, a tip connected to the main tube distal end and a tracking mechanism connected to a handle proximal end. A method is provided for tracking the position of a tracked suction device including attaching a tip to a handle in one of a plurality of fixed positions, attaching a tracking mechanism to the handle in one of a plurality of fixed positions, calibrating the position of the tip with a positional tracking system using the tracking mechanism, positioning the tracking markers in view of the positional tracking system and tracking a position of the distal end of the tip of the suction device.

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