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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 11246719 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2014

Medical registration apparatus and method for registering an axis

Applicant:

Brainlab Ag, Munich, DE;

Inventors:

Sabine Kling, Unterschleißheim, DE;

Luise Poitzsch, Au i. d. Hallertau, DE;

Mario Schubert, Poing, DE;

Melanie Stulpe, Munich, DE;

Assignee:

Brainlab AG, Munich, DE;

Attorney:

Tucker Ellis, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Amanda Lauritzen Moher

Assistant Examiner:

Amy J Shafqat

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61F 2/46 (2006.01); A61F 5/01 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/4657 (2013.01); A61B 5/1114 (2013.01); A61B 5/1127 (2013.01); A61B 5/6887 (2013.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.02); A61B 34/20 (2016.02); A61B 90/06 (2016.02); A61B 90/39 (2016.02); A61B 2017/00951 (2013.01); A61B 2034/105 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2048 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2055 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2065 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2068 (2016.02); A61B 2090/067 (2016.02); A61B 2090/363 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3916 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3937 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3983 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3991 (2016.02);
Abstract

The invention relates to a medical registration apparatus (), comprising •two flanks (); •a pivot portion () around which at least one of the flanks () is rotatable with respect to a rotation centre () (FIG., FIG.); •a contacting portion () on each of the flanks (), each contacting portion () being spaced apart from the rotation centre (); and •a sensor () being arranged with an offset (r, FIG.A) to a line (a) connecting the contacting portions (). The invention also relates to a data processing method for use with the medical registration apparatus.

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