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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2022
Globus Medical, Inc., Audubon, PA (US);
Hayden Cameron, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Spiros Mantzavinos, Nashua, NH (US);
Neil R. Crawford, Chandler, AZ (US);
Sanjay Joshi, Andover, MA (US);
Norbert Johnson, North Andover, MA (US);
James Cascarano, Cambridge, MA (US);
Justin Larson, Reading, MA (US);
Abstract
A system for robotic surgery makes use of an end-effector which has been configured so that any selected one of a group of surgical tools may be selectively connected to such end-effector. The end-effector makes use of a tool-insert locking mechanism which secures a selected one of the surgical tools at not only a respective, predetermined height and angle of orientation, but also at a rotational position relative to an anatomical feature of the patient. The tool-insert locking mechanism may include interchangeable inserts to interconnect multiple tools to the same end-effector. In this way, different robotic operations may be accomplished with less reconfiguration of the end-effector. The end-effector may also include a tool stop which has a sensor associated with a moveable stop mechanism which may be positioned to selectively inhibit tool insertion or end-effector movement.