US 12,257,119 B2
Determination of structural characteristics of an object
James C. Earthman, Irvine, CA (US); Cherilyn G. Sheets, Newport Beach, CA (US); John Michael Elam, Woodland Hills, CA (US); and John Milligan, Camarillo, CA (US)
Assigned to PERIMETRICS, INC., Redmond, WA (US)
Appl. No. 17/623,014
Filed by Perimetrics, LLC, Los Angeles, CA (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 30, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/040386
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 27, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/003200, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/869,017, filed on Jun. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0157799 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. A61C 19/04 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61C 19/04 (2013.01) [A61B 5/4547 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method for determining structural characteristics of an object, comprising:
selecting or detecting an object type of an object;
contacting a device with said object having said selected or detected object type, said device comprising:
a housing having an open front end and a longitudinal axis;
an energy application tool mounted inside said housing, said energy application tool having a resting configuration and an active configuration;
a drive mechanism supported inside said housing, said drive mechanism being adapted for activating said energy application tool between said resting and active configurations to apply a set amount of energy at a horizontal orientation;
an inclinometer adapted to measure inclination of the energy application tool relative to the horizontal; and
a control mechanism connected to provide instructions to said drive mechanism and receive an input from said inclinometer, said control mechanism comprising a selector to a plurality of alternate control settings for different object selections; and
activating said drive mechanism using said control mechanism to vary the amount of energy applied to activate said energy application tool between said resting and active configurations based on the selected or detected type, said varying the amount of energy applied to activate said energy application tool between said resting and active configurations is controlled by varying a drive time of a drive coil in said drive mechanism selected by subjecting a preset value from a reference table stored by said control mechanism to a computer function to arrive at an adjusted value;
wherein said amount of energy applied corresponds to a predetermined value for a particular object type.