US 11,938,081 B2
Neuromuscular enhancement system
Safavi-Abbasi Sam, Scottsdale, AZ (US); Brent Hartman, Scottsdale, AZ (US); and Phillip Reyes, Tempe, AZ (US)
Filed by Safavi-Abbasi Sam, Scottsdale, AZ (US); Brent Hartman, Scottsdale, AZ (US); and Phillip Reyes, Tempe, AZ (US)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/178,060.
Application 17/178,060 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/US2019/047134, filed on Aug. 20, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/719,761, filed on Aug. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0259913 A1, Aug. 26, 2021
Int. Cl. A61H 23/00 (2006.01); A41D 13/12 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 90/60 (2016.01); A61H 23/02 (2006.01); B25J 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61H 23/02 (2013.01) [A41D 13/1209 (2013.01); A61B 90/36 (2016.02); A61B 90/60 (2016.02); B25J 9/0006 (2013.01); A41D 2400/322 (2013.01); A41D 2500/00 (2013.01); A61B 2090/365 (2016.02); A61H 2201/01 (2013.01); A61H 2201/1207 (2013.01); A61H 2201/165 (2013.01); A61H 2201/50 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An assistive system comprising:
(a) an article configured to be worn by a user, comprising one or more sheets of actuating elements that change properties responsive to the supply of energy, which sheet or sheets are mounted with each other and shaped to substantially conform to at least a portion of the user's body;
(b) a control system in communication with the article, and configured to supply energy to sheet or sheets such that the responsive change in the properties of the sheet or sheets augment, resist, or a combination thereof, motion or force of the user;
(c) further comprising one or more sensors embedded in or mounted to the article, wherein the control system is responsive to the sensors; and
(d) further comprising an imaging system configured to capture images of a workspace in which the user is moving, and
wherein the control system is configured to encourage motion of the user to a predetermined location in the workspace; wherein the workspace comprises a surgical field, and
wherein the imaging system is further configured to determine the predetermined location as a location in the surgical field correlated with images of a patient previously acquired.