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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.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
John J Triano, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
Kinex Iha Corp., Phoenix, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
702150 ; 702190 ; 702191 ; 600595 ;
Abstract
A method for determining instantaneous helical axis parameters pertaining to the kinematic function of a joint processes the data with a first filter function which is based upon the Woltring IHA filter function. In accordance with the invention, backward propagating noise is eliminated by prefiltering the data utilizing a Butterworth filter.