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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2022
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
David Gene Bowling, Los Ranchos de Albuquerue, NM (US);
John Michael Stuart, Rio Rancho, NM (US);
Jerry A. Culp, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Donald W. Malackowski, Schoolcraft, MI (US);
José Luis Moctezuma De La Barrera, Freiburg, DE;
Patrick Roessler, Merzhausen, DE;
Joel N. Beer, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Stryker Corporation, Portage, MI (US);
Abstract
A user control device for a surgical system. The surgical system includes a robotic manipulator to support and move a surgical instrument that has an energy applicator. One or more controllers operate the robotic manipulator in a semi-autonomous mode and calculate an instrument feed rate, which is the velocity at which the energy applicator advances along a tool path in the semi-autonomous mode. The user control device includes a housing configured as a pendant configured to be held in one hand of a user. A first control member is mounted to the housing and can be depressed to initiate operation of the robotic manipulator in the semi-autonomous mode. A second control member is mounted to the housing and can be depressed to modify the instrument feed rate in the semi-autonomous mode.