US 12,342,438 B2
Systems and methods for controlling a medical light via a software configurable handle assembly
Sudhanshu Mehta, Gurdaspur (IN); Robert L. York, Lantana, TX (US); Amber Hildebrand, North Richland Hills, TX (US); Paul Nguyen, Flower Mound, TX (US); and William Lowell Jacques, II, Mount Pleasant, SC (US)
Assigned to Stryker Corporation, Portage, MI (US)
Filed by Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/656,639.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/166,624, filed on Mar. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0312569 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 90/30 (2016.01); F21V 21/40 (2006.01); H05B 47/105 (2020.01)
CPC H05B 47/105 (2020.01) [A61B 90/30 (2016.02); F21V 21/403 (2013.01); A61B 2090/308 (2016.02)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for controlling a medical light by a handle assembly, the method comprising:
storing configuration data at a controller of the handle assembly that defines a mapping of handle assembly user inputs to medical light property adjustments;
detecting a first user input to the handle assembly, wherein the handle assembly is removably mounted to the medical light; and
sending a control signal to the medical light to vary a property of light provided by the medical light according to the first user input and the configuration data.