US 11,925,511 B2
Surgical tool support systems including elongate support legs with adjustable lengths and related methods
David John Sayler, Portland, OR (US); Peter G. Piferi, Orange, CA (US); Rajesh Pandey, Irvine, CA (US); Maxwell Jerad Daly, Redlands, CA (US); and Kimberly Luu, Laguna Niguel, CA (US)
Assigned to ClearPoint Neuro, Inc., Solana Beach, CA (US)
Filed by ClearPoint Neuro, Inc., Solana Beach, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/153,988.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/134,800, filed on Jan. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/968,210, filed on Jan. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0236229 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 90/14 (2016.01); A61B 90/10 (2016.01); A61B 90/11 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 90/14 (2016.02) [A61B 90/10 (2016.02); A61B 90/11 (2016.02)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical tool support system comprising:
a plurality of support legs, wherein each of the support legs comprises longitudinally opposing first and second end portions, and wherein each of the support legs are independently adjustable in length;
a plurality of disks coupled together with an axial extending centerline thereof extending in a transverse orientation, wherein each disk of the plurality of disks is attached to a different respective one of the plurality of support legs at the first end portion thereof whereby the first end portion of the plurality of support legs are adjacent to each other, wherein at least one of the plurality of disks is rotatable independently of another of the at least one of the plurality of disks, while the second end portions of the plurality of support legs remain in a respective fixed position, and lockable into a desired circumferential position to provide an adjustable orientation of a respective support leg attached thereto, and wherein at least one of the plurality of disks provides a bracket or a bracket attachment structure that is attached to the bracket so that the bracket projects outwardly from the plurality of disks at a location that is circumferentially spaced apart from the first end portion of the plurality of support legs; and
a support platform comprising a plurality of spaced apart apertures, wherein the second end portions of the plurality of support legs are each concurrently attached or attachable to different ones of the apertures of the plurality of apertures of the support platform.