US 12,239,327 B2
Powered drill assembly
Brad Jacobsen, Erie, CO (US); Milton F. Barnes, Grand Prairie, TX (US); Rowena Vigh, Superior, CO (US); and Steven Hartmann, Superior, CO (US)
Assigned to Medtronic Navigation, Inc., Lafayette, CO (US)
Filed by Medtronic Navigation, Inc., Louisville, CO (US)
Filed on Dec. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/555,777.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/129,906, filed on Dec. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0192684 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/16 (2006.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); G06T 7/12 (2017.01)
CPC A61B 17/1671 (2013.01) [A61B 17/1695 (2013.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.02); G06T 7/12 (2017.01); A61B 2034/2065 (2016.02); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20101 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30012 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system to control operation of a surgical instrument, comprising:
a tracking device configured to be associated with the instrument;
a navigation system configured to determine a pose of the instrument based on tracking the tracking device;
an instrument controller configured to operate the instrument according to a selected operation parameter, wherein the instrument controller comprises a processor module configured to execute instructions to alter the operation parameter of the instrument based at least on the determined pose of the instrument; and
an avoidance space determination system configured to determine an avoidance space of a boundary in an anatomy;
wherein the operation parameters are altered based on the determined pose of the instrument relative to the avoidance space;
wherein the operation parameters include at least a full rotation parameter and an oscillation parameter.