US 12,220,162 B2
Turbinate reduction instrument
Ehsan Shameli, Irvine, CA (US); Jetmir Palushi, Irvine, CA (US); Itzhak Fang, Irvine, CA (US); Athanasios Papadakis, Newport Beach, CA (US); William J. Kane, Newport Coast, CA (US); and Fatemeh Akbarian, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US)
Assigned to Acclarent, Inc., Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by Acclarent, Inc., Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 12, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/096,346.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/942,786, filed on Dec. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0161589 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 18/1485 (2013.01) [A61B 90/39 (2016.02); A61B 2018/00208 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00327 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00607 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1412 (2013.01); A61B 2090/3937 (2016.02)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical instrument comprising:
(a) a handle assembly;
(b) a shaft assembly extending distally from the handle assembly and having a distal end sized to be inserted into the nasal cavity of a patient, a portion of the shaft assembly being rotatable relative to the handle assembly, the shaft assembly including:
(i) a cutting member configured to cut tissue within the nasal cavity, and
(ii) a translating member slidably disposed over the cutting member; and
(c) a navigation sensor housed within the cutting member, the navigation sensor being operable to generate a signal corresponding to a position of the distal end within the patient, the navigation sensor being rotationally fixed relative to the handle assembly, the portion of the shaft assembly that is rotatable relative to the handle assembly being further rotatable relative to the navigation sensor.