Patents by Inventor Fabian Riegelsberger
Fabian Riegelsberger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11992272Abstract: An optical tracking device, a surgical navigation system and a surgical navigation method are disclosed. The optical tracking device comprises a body having at least two optically distinguishable lines, wherein at least one of the lines is an edge of the body. The lines are configured to be detected by an optical detection system simultaneously. They have a fixed spatial relationship between each other. The method comprises providing the optical tracking device, acquiring data describing the fixed spatial relationship, detecting the lines and determining the spatial position and/or orientation of the optical tracking device based on the detected lines and the fixed spatial relationship.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLCInventors: Gerd Ulrich Gamm, Emeric Umbdenstock, Reinhold Zimmermann, Fabian Riegelsberger, Florian Herrmann, Jochen Breisacher
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Publication number: 20240115328Abstract: A tracker, a surgical navigation system with the tracker, and a method of operating the tracker are described. The tracker comprises a first switch configured to be operated between a first switch configuration and a second switch configuration. The tracker also comprises one or more sources of electromagnetic radiation configured to selectively emit electromagnetic radiation with a first radiation characteristic or a second radiation characteristic. The tracker further comprises electrical circuitry configured to selectively control the one or more sources of electromagnetic radiation to emit electromagnetic radiation having the first radiation characteristic in the first switch configuration and to emit electromagnetic radiation having the second radiation characteristic in the second switch configuration, wherein the second radiation characteristic is different from the first radiation characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Stryker European Operations LimitedInventors: Fadi Ghanam, Fabian Riegelsberger, David Hofmann, Reinhold Zimmermann, Andreas Reutter
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Publication number: 20240074820Abstract: A tracker, a surgical tool system, a surgical navigation system, and a method for operating a surgical navigation system are provided. The tracker is configured to be associated with a patient or a surgical tool that is to be tracked by the surgical navigation system. The tracker comprises an optical fibre having a longitudinal extension and configured to be optically coupled to a light source such that the optical fibre transmits light emitted by the light source. The optical fibre has a lateral surface along its longitudinal extension and is configured to emit light via at least a portion of the lateral surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLCInventors: Fabian Riegelsberger, Florian Herrmann, Jochen Breisacher
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Patent number: 11883116Abstract: A tracker, a surgical navigation system with the tracker, and a method of operating the tracker are described. The tracker comprises a first switch configured to be operated between a first switch configuration and a second switch configuration. The tracker also comprises one or more sources of electromagnetic radiation configured to selectively emit electromagnetic radiation with a first radiation characteristic or a second radiation characteristic. The tracker further comprises electrical circuitry configured to selectively control the one or more sources of electromagnetic radiation to emit electromagnetic radiation having the first radiation characteristic in the first switch configuration and to emit electromagnetic radiation having the second radiation characteristic in the second switch configuration, wherein the second radiation characteristic is different from the first radiation characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Stryker European Operations LimitedInventors: Fadi Ghanam, Fabian Riegelsberger, David Hofmann, Reinhold Zimmermann, Andreas Reutter
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Patent number: 11850007Abstract: A tracker, a surgical tool system, a surgical navigation system, and a method for operating a surgical navigation system are provided. The tracker is configured to be associated with a patient or a surgical tool that is to be tracked by the surgical navigation system. The tracker comprises an optical fibre having a longitudinal extension and configured to be optically coupled to a light source such that the optical fibre transmits light emitted by the light source. The optical fibre has a lateral surface along its longitudinal extension and is configured to emit light via at least a portion of the lateral surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLCInventors: Fabian Riegelsberger, Florian Herrmann, Jochen Breisacher
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Publication number: 20230338093Abstract: A surgical tracker assembly for use with a navigation system. The tracker assembly includes a tracker body defining a chamber configured to receive a printed circuit board (PCB) including a plurality of markers that are actively energizable through the PCB. A plurality of openings formed in the tracker body and at least one channel formed in the tracker body extending between the chamber and one of the defined by the tracker body. Each of the markers are visible through one of the plurality of openings of the tracker body. The tracker body is configured to be sterilizable, with the PCB being located within the chamber of the tracker body, and the at least one channel is configured to enable sterilization fluid to enter into and drain from the chamber of the tracker body during sterilization. The PCB may also include a sterilization resistant protective coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Jonathan Mark Morgan, Timothy Wade Perez, Fabian Riegelsberger, Jochen Breisacher, Michael Schweizer, Daniel Kühne, Felix Jung, Kana Nishimura, Paul Hoekstra
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Publication number: 20230070115Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a housing assembly for accommodating printed circuit boards (PCBs). The housing assembly comprises a first housing portion configured to accommodate a first PCB, a second housing portion configured to accommodate a second PCB, and a separating portion for separating the first housing portion from the second housing portion. The separating portion comprises a first separating region in which the first housing portion and the second housing portion overlap and a second separating region that extends beyond the second housing portion and covers the first housing portion. The second separating region comprises one or more convection openings.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: Stryker European Operations LimitedInventors: Ulrich Melder, Janina Fritzenschaft, Fabian Riegelsberger, Hans Schoepp
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Patent number: 11553970Abstract: A method, a controller, and a surgical hybrid navigation system for transferring a registration of three dimensional image data of a surgical object from a first to a second surgical navigation system are described. A first tracker that is detectable by a first detector of the first surgical navigation system is arranged in a fixed spatial relationship with the surgical object and a second tracker that is detectable by a second detector of the second surgical navigation system is arranged in a fixed spatial relationship with the surgical object. The method includes registering the three dimensional image data of the surgical object in a first coordinate system of the first surgical navigation system and determining a first position and orientation of the first tracker in the first coordinate system and a second position and orientation of the second tracker in a second coordinate system of the second surgical navigation system.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Stryker European Holdings I, LLCInventors: Hans Schöpp, Florian Herrmann, David Hofmann, Udo Pfrengle, Fabian Riegelsberger
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Publication number: 20220370150Abstract: Systems and methods for optimizing tracking an object in a surgical workspace. A tracker is disposed relative to the object that includes a predefined geometry of markers for tracking a pose of the tracker in the surgical workspace. A localizer camera cooperates with the tracker to generate image data indicating a blob for each of the markers generated from a light signal received from the marker. A characteristic of each blob is acquired, and the acquired characteristics are compared to an optimal characteristic. Based on the comparison, the operation of the trackers, the localizer, or both are adjusted to optimize the blobs generated from the markers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.Inventors: Emeric Umbdenstock, Paul Hoekstra, Trudbert Schwoerer, Fabian Riegelsberger, Helmut Rohs, Philip Robert Woods
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Publication number: 20220183769Abstract: A tracker, a surgical navigation system with the tracker, and a method of operating the tracker are described. The tracker comprises a first switch configured to be operated between a first switch configuration and a second switch configuration. The tracker also comprises one or more sources of electromagnetic radiation configured to selectively emit electromagnetic radiation with a first radiation characteristic or a second radiation characteristic. The tracker further comprises electrical circuitry configured to selectively control the one or more sources of electromagnetic radiation to emit electromagnetic radiation having the first radiation characteristic in the first switch configuration and to emit electromagnetic radiation having the second radiation characteristic in the second switch configuration, wherein the second radiation characteristic is different from the first radiation characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: Stryker European Operations LimitedInventors: Fadi Ghanam, Fabian Riegelsberger, David Hofmann, Reinhold Zimmermann, Andreas Reutter
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Publication number: 20200297428Abstract: A method, a controller, and a surgical hybrid navigation system for transferring a registration of three dimensional image data of a surgical object from a first to a second surgical navigation system are described. A first tracker that is detectable by a first detector of the first surgical navigation system is arranged in a fixed spatial relationship with the surgical object and a second tracker that is detectable by a second detector of the second surgical navigation system is arranged in a fixed spatial relationship with the surgical object. The method includes registering the three dimensional image data of the surgical object in a first coordinate system of the first surgical navigation system and determining a first position and orientation of the first tracker in the first coordinate system and a second position and orientation of the second tracker in a second coordinate system of the second surgical navigation system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: Stryker European Holdings I, LLCInventors: Hans Schöpp, Florian Herrmann, David Hofmann, Udo Pfrengle, Fabian Riegelsberger
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Publication number: 20200229874Abstract: An optical tracking device, a surgical navigation system and a surgical navigation method are disclosed. The optical tracking device comprises a body having at least two optically distinguishable lines, wherein at least one of the lines is an edge of the body. The lines are configured to be detected by an optical detection system simultaneously. They have a fixed spatial relationship between each other. The method comprises providing the optical tracking device, acquiring data describing the fixed spatial relationship, detecting the lines and determining the spatial position and/or orientation of the optical tracking device based on the detected lines and the fixed spatial relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: Stryker European Holdings I, LLCInventors: Gerd Ulrich Gamm, Emeric Umbdenstock, Reinhold Zimmermann, Fabian Riegelsberger, Florian Herrmann, Jochen Breisacher
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Publication number: 20200229873Abstract: A tracker, a surgical tool system, a surgical navigation system, and a method for operating a surgical navigation system are provided. The tracker is configured to be associated with a patient or a surgical tool that is to be tracked by the surgical navigation system. The tracker comprises an optical fibre having a longitudinal extension and configured to be optically coupled to a light source such that the optical fibre transmits light emitted by the light source. The optical fibre has a lateral surface along its longitudinal extension and is configured to emit light via at least a portion of the lateral surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: Stryker European Holdings I, LLCInventors: Fabian Riegelsberger, Florian Herrmann, Jochen Breisacher
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Patent number: D901661Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Stryker European Holdings I, LLCInventors: Fabian Riegelsberger, Florian Herrmann
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Patent number: D996594Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLCInventors: Fabian Riegelsberger, Florian Herrmann
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Patent number: D1003749Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Stryker European Operations LimitedInventors: Janina Fritzenschaft, Ulrich Melder, Anja Krautter-Czak, Fabian Riegelsberger, Hans Schoepp, Peter Hess