US 12,290,324 B2
Tracker mounting apparatus with kinematic interfaces
Riley Aaron Bloomfield, New Hamburg (CA); Joseph Arthur Schipper, Kitchener (CA); and Andre Novomir Hladio, Waterloo (CA)
Assigned to Intellijoint Surgical Inc., Kitchener (CA)
Filed by INTELLIJOINT SURGICAL INC., Kitchener (CA)
Filed on Jan. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/098,315.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/302,680, filed on Jan. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0233265 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 34/20 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 34/20 (2016.02) [A61B 2034/2046 (2016.02)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A side mount platform to mount a tracker to a bone via a coupling base, the platform comprising:
a body having a first end member and a second end member laterally connected to and spaced from the first end member by an extension member of the body;
wherein the first end member comprises an under surface providing a base coupling interface for coupling to the coupling base;
wherein the second end member comprises an upper surface providing a tracker coupling interface for coupling the platform to the tracker;
wherein the extension member is angled such that a plane occupied by an upper surface of the first end member is different from a plane occupied by the upper surface of the second end member; and
wherein an under surface of the extension member and an under surface of the second end member are configured to follow a contour along a portion of the bone over which the extension member and the second end member are to be placed.