US 12,102,390 B2
System and method for pre-planning a procedure
Peter Sculco, New York, NY (US); Andre Novomir Hladio, Waterloo (CA); and Joseph Arthur Schipper, Kitchener (CA)
Assigned to Intellijoint Surgical Inc., Kitchener (CA)
Appl. No. 17/295,406
Filed by INTELLIJOINT SURGICAL INC., Kitchener (CA)
PCT Filed Nov. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/CA2019/051641
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/102886, PCT Pub. Date May 28, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/769,219, filed on Nov. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0008131 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 19/20 (2011.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); A61F 2/46 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G16H 20/40 (2018.01); A61B 17/15 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 34/10 (2016.02) [A61F 2/4607 (2013.01); A61F 2/4609 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G06T 19/20 (2013.01); G16H 20/40 (2018.01); A61B 17/15 (2013.01); A61B 2034/108 (2016.02); A61F 2002/4633 (2013.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01); G06T 2210/41 (2013.01); G06T 2219/2004 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer implemented method comprising:
via a processing unit of a computing device:
accessing and displaying at least one image of a musculoskeletal structure of a patient of a known view;
defining reference axes of the musculoskeletal structure on the at least one image, based on user input;
receiving input identifying implant characteristics for an implant instance; and
rendering and overlaying a safe zone graphical element based on a first position, relative to the reference axes, of the implant instance and the implant characteristics.