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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2018
Applicant:
Nuvasive, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Eric Finley, Poway, CA (US);
Albert Kim, San Diego, CA (US);
Thomas Scholl, San Diego, CA (US);
Jeffrey Barnes, San Diego, CA (US);
Bryce Nesbitt, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
NuVasive, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/06 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/06 (2012.12);
Abstract
The present application includes a position tracking system for tracking the location of surgical objects within the surgical field, a neuromonitoring system for detecting the existence of (and optionally the distance and/or direction to) neural structures during a surgical procedure, and a processing system communicatively linked to both the position tracking system and the neuromonitoring system.