US 11,869,379 B2
Abdominal hernia simulation model for surgical training
John Alexander, Sunnyvale, CA (US); W. Andrew Grubbs, Chapel Hill, NC (US); Kaity Yu Emerson, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Morgan Dominice Moore, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Megan Harrison Dew, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Samuel David Drew, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Appl. No. 16/977,861
Filed by Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 11, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/021657
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 3, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/177993, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/641,618, filed on Mar. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0043114 A1, Feb. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. G09B 23/30 (2006.01); G09B 23/34 (2006.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61G 13/04 (2006.01); A61G 13/06 (2006.01)
CPC G09B 23/306 (2013.01) [G09B 23/34 (2013.01); A61B 18/1482 (2013.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.02); A61G 13/04 (2013.01); A61G 13/06 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cassette comprising:
a section of pork belly tissue mimicking a hernia, and a plate to which the section of pork belly tissue is adhered,
wherein the plate is adapted to be connected to a grounding device to electrically ground the section of pork belly tissue to facilitate electrocautery, and to affix the section of pork belly tissue into a simulated anatomic framework that mirrors the human abdomen.