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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2023
Mako Surgical Corp., Weston, FL (US);
Radu Iorgulescu, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Carinne Cecile Granchi, Weston, FL (US);
Dennis Moses, Hollywood, FL (US);
Jason Robert Wojcik, Weston, FL (US);
MAKO Surgical Corp., Weston, FL (US);
Abstract
A method for operating a surgical robot includes providing a plurality of virtual haptic geometries associated with different steps of a surgical procedure, evaluating a plurality of criteria associated with a first virtual haptic geometry of the plurality of virtual haptic geometries, activating the first virtual haptic geometry of the plurality of virtual haptic geometries without activating a second virtual haptic geometry of the plurality of virtual haptic geometries in response to satisfaction of the plurality of criteria, and controlling the surgical robot to constrain movement of an end effector of the surgical robot to the first virtual haptic geometry in response to activating the first virtual haptic geometry.