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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2019
Neuralink Corp., San Francisco, CA (US);
Ian M. O'Hara, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vikash Gilja, San Diego, CA (US);
Kenny Sharma, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy L. Hanson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy J. Gardner, San Francisco, CA (US);
NEURALINK, CORP., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods that use computer vision techniques in connection with robotic surgery are discussed. A robotic surgery system may include an implantable device engagement sub-system, a targeting sub-system, and/or an insertion verification sub-system. The system may use computer vision techniques to facilitate implanting a micro-manufactured bio-compatible electrode device in biological tissue (e.g., neurological tissue such as the brain) using robotic assemblies. The system can attach, via robotic manipulation, the electrode to an engagement element of an insertion needle. The system can further irradiate the electrode using a near-ultraviolet (near-UV) wavelength of light, obtain images of the electrode with light fluoresced from the polymer portion in response to the irradiating, triangulate a 3D location of the electrode, analyze a target tissue contour using computer vision, select an insertion site, and surgically implant the micron-scale electrode at the insertion site via robotic assembly and based on the triangulated location.