US 12,431,039 B2
Testing surface for advanced medical training
Jason Z. Moore, State College, PA (US); Scarlett Miller, State College, PA (US); Dailen Brown, State College, PA (US); Haroula Tzamaras, State College, PA (US); Jessica M. González-Vargas, State College, PA (US); and E. David C. Han, Hummelstown, PA (US)
Assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation, University Park (PA)
Filed by The Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, PA (US)
Filed on Apr. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/716,543.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/172,134, filed on Apr. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0327962 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G09B 23/30 (2006.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.01); G09B 23/28 (2006.01)
CPC G09B 23/285 (2013.01) [A61B 34/25 (2016.02); G09B 23/30 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0223 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical training system, comprising:
a user interface;
a housing extending in a longitudinal direction, the housing having a proximal end and a distal end;
a phantom tissue simulant surface on a top surface of the housing;
the housing having an insertion hole at the proximal end, the insertion hole disposed beneath the phantom tissue simulant;
at least one medical instrument, the medical instrument having a tip configured to pierce the phantom tissue simulant surface;
a passage extending from the insertion hole, the passage extending in the longitudinal direction of the housing;
at least one sensor operable to determine an insertion position of the tip of the at least one medical instrument and to sense an external downward force of the at least one medical instrument on the phantom tissue simulant surface; and
a microprocessor connected to the at least one sensor, the microprocessor configured to read and process information from each of the at least one sensor.