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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2010
Applicant:
Mordehai Sholev, Amikam, IL;
Inventor:
Mordehai Sholev, Amikam, IL;
Assignee:
M.S.T. Medical Surgery Technologies Ltd., Upper Nazareth, IL;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An interface between a surgeon and an automated assistant, including: at least one array comprising N RF transmitters, where N is a positive integer; at least one RF receiver provided with at least two directional antenna; means for attaching said RF transmitter array to at least one surgical tool; and a computerized operating system adapted to record the received signal strength (RSS) received by each antenna of the one RF receiver and to calculate therefrom the position of each of the N RF transmitters, and further adapted to provide automatically the results of the calculation to the surgeon.