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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Extremity Development Company, Llc, Akron, OH (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
EXTREMITY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC, Akron, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); A61B 5/06 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 17/17 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/062 (2013.01); A61B 5/067 (2013.01); A61B 5/1121 (2013.01); A61B 5/1127 (2013.01); A61B 17/17 (2013.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.02); A61B 34/25 (2016.02); A61B 90/37 (2016.02); A61B 5/0035 (2013.01); A61B 5/743 (2013.01); A61B 2034/107 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2048 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2072 (2016.02); A61B 2505/05 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0223 (2013.01); A61B 2562/028 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0219 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides a MEMS sensor guidance system mounted on a surgical instrument and uses the MEMS sensor to determine Inertial Measurement Units to track rotation and acceleration in all three spatial directions. Further the invention provides a method of surgery in which a reference axis, a loci, and a depth are defined and the instrument including the sensor cluster of the invention is placed in relation to the y-axis and x-axis and following the working end is aligned and the orientation and depth data display is observed to aid in maintaining the desired instrument.