US 12,357,195 B2
System, method and apparatus for anchoring an electronic device and measuring a joint angle
Gordon J. Hull, Las Vegas, NV (US); Steven Mason, Las Vegas, NV (US); Bill McGrail, Las Vegas, NV (US); David Scheck, Las Vegas, NV (US); Daniel Lipszyc, Glasgow, MT (US); Mikael Taveras, Boston, MA (US); S. Adam Hacking, Nashua, NH (US); Sucheta Tamragouri, Nashua, NH (US); and Jeff Cote, Woodbury, CT (US)
Assigned to ROM Technologies, Inc., Brookfield, CT (US)
Appl. No. 18/003,213
Filed by ROM Technologies, Inc., Brookfield, CT (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 23, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/038617
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 23, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/262809, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/123,301, filed on Dec. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/044,625, filed on Jun. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0263428 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 5/107 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 5/1071 (2013.01) [A61B 90/39 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3937 (2016.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of installing devices on a user, the method comprising:
(a) locating a lateral epicondyle at a knee of the user and indicating same to define a knee indicator;
(b) installing a knee pivot anchor at the knee indicator;
(c) locating a greater trochanter at a hip of the user and indicating same to define a hip indicator;
(d) locating a lateral malleolus at an ankle of the user and indicating same to define an ankle indicator;
(e) mounting a proximal portion of a template to the knee pivot anchor, pivoting the template about the knee pivot anchor, and aligning a distal portion of the template with a hip dot;
(f) placing a first pod in an aperture of the template and, with the distal portion of the template aligned with the hip dot, securing the first pod to a proximal location on the user;
(g) pivoting the template about the knee pivot anchor and aligning the distal portion of the template with an ankle dot;
(f) placing a second pod in the aperture of the template and, with the distal portion of the template aligned with the ankle dot, securing the second pod to a distal location on the user; and
(g) removing the template and the knee pivot anchor from the user.