Apparatus for robotic joint arthroscopic surgery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12213741-B2
Application number	US-202318461723-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 6, 2023
Priority date	Oct 26, 2022
Publication date	Feb 4, 2025
Grant date	Feb 4, 2025

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and systems for performing robotic joint arthroscopic surgery are disclosed. The disclosed systems use a surgical robot to perform robotic joint arthroscopic surgery for soft tissue. The disclosed systems enable a surgeon or physician to perform a virtual surgical procedure in a virtual environment, storing robotic movements, workflow objects, user inputs, or a description of tools used. The surgical robot filters the stored data to determine a surgical workflow from the stored data. The surgical robot displays information describing a surgical step in the surgical workflow, enabling the surgeon or physician to optionally adjust the surgical workflow. The surgical robot stores the optional adjustments and performs the surgical procedure on a patient by executing surgical actions of the surgical workflow.

First claim

We claim:

1. A surgical robot comprising:
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer instructions, which when executed by one or more computer processors cause the surgical robot to:
extract information describing an arthroscopic surgical procedure from a surgical database performing the arthroscopic surgical procedure by the surgical robot;
identify injured soft tissue within an anatomy of a patient using images of the anatomy obtained using an imaging sensor of the surgical robot; and
perform the arthroscopic surgical procedure based on the information, wherein the computer instructions cause the surgical robot to:
secure, by one or more end effectors of the surgical robot, the injured soft tissue; and
suture, by the one or more end effectors, the injured locations to repair the injured soft tissue.

2. The surgical robot of claim 1 , wherein the one or more end effectors comprise at least one material that absorbs X-rays, reflects X-rays, or is transparent to X-rays to facilitate visibility of the one or more end effectors when viewed using angiography or fluoroscopy.

3. The surgical robot of claim 1 , wherein the surgical robot comprises a mechanically actuated robotic arm or lever having at least two degrees of freedom.

4. The surgical robot of claim 3 , wherein the robotic arm comprises the one or more end effectors or the imaging sensor.

5. The surgical robot of claim 1 , wherein the imaging sensor is integrated into a catheter assembly.

6. The surgical robot of claim 1 , wherein sensor data acquired by the imaging sensor is used to train a machine learning model for generating the information.

7. The surgical robot of claim 1 , wherein the imaging sensor comprises an X-ray dosimeter configured to monitor an intensity of X-rays emitted toward the patient to prevent a dose of radiation from exceeding a threshold.

8. The surgical robot of claim 7 , wherein the surgical robot is configured to prevent the dose of radiation from exceeding the threshold based on monitoring the intensity of X-rays emitted toward the patient by reducing the intensity of the X-rays.

9. The surgical robot of claim 7 , wherein the surgical robot is configured to prevent the dose of radiation from exceeding the threshold based on monitoring the intensity of X-rays emitted toward the patient by reducing a duration in which the X-rays are emitted toward the patient.

Assignees

• Ix Innovation Llc

Inventors

• Roh Jeffrey
• Esterberg Justin
• Cronin John
• Cronin Seth
• Baker Michael John
• Patel Mihir

Classifications

• A61B2034/252

  indicating steps of a surgical procedure · CPC title

• A61B2090/376

  using X-rays, e.g. fluoroscopy · CPC title

• A61B2090/374

  NMR or MRI · CPC title

• A61B2034/305

  Details of wrist mechanisms at distal ends of robotic arms · CPC title

• A61B2034/256

  having a database of accessory information, e.g. including context sensitive help or scientific articles · CPC title