Patents by Inventor William J. Frasier
William J. Frasier 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: 11944391Abstract: Surgical systems and methods are disclosed, including, in one embodiment, a system having a coupling system disposed on a distal end portion of a surgical robot arm that secures a navigation array to the robot arm in a plurality of different orientations. The system further includes a navigation system configured to determine a precise location of the distal end portion by measuring a precise location of the navigation array by visually observing the navigation array, receiving a location of the coupling system via one or more encoders in the robot arm, determining the orientation of the navigation array relative to the robot arm based on the visual observation of the navigation array and the received location of the coupling system, and determining the precise location of the distal end portion of the surgical robot arm based on a known spatial relationship between the distal end portion and the coupling system.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Robert Brik, William J. Frasier, Marc Puls, Richard Patrick Courtis
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Publication number: 20240081926Abstract: Sterile connectors for robotic or robot-assisted surgery and related systems and methods can be used to establish a sterile barrier between a non-sterile robot arm and a surgical site. More particularly, a sterile connector can include a first component connector to couple to a distal end of a robot arm, a second component connector to couple to an end effector, and a sterile drape extending from the sterile connector. The sterile drape can drape the robot arm and can maintain a sterile barrier around the robot arm throughout the course of a surgical procedure. In this manner, an end effector can be swapped out during the procedure without the need to re-drape or re-establish the sterile surgical field. In some embodiments, the sterile connector can facilitate the passage of electrical signals and/or light between the sterile connector and at least one of the robot arm and end effector.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Robert Brik, William J. Frasier, Tarik Yardibi, Brice Dudley, JR.
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Patent number: 11925426Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for surgical instruments, systems, and methods for preventing skiving of a drilling instrument during a robotic or robot-assisted surgery are disclosed. In one embodiment, a scan of a patient's anatomy can be performed to produce a model of the bone to be drilled into and analysis of the surface can determine if the curvature is such that, if a target trajectory for a bore were followed, skiving of the drilling instrument is likely. If so, an alternate anti-skiving trajectory can be determined. The anti-skiving trajectory of a bore differs from the target trajectory by at least one of entry point, diameter, axis, or depth.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: William J Frasier, Robert Brik, Richard Patrick Courtis, Tarik Yardibi, Marc Puls, Matias De La Fuente Klein, Lukas Theisgen, Manuel Vossel, Klaus Radermacher
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Patent number: 11923068Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, a patient can be tracked throughout medical treatment including through initial onset of symptoms, diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment. In one embodiment, a patient and one or more medical professionals involved with treating the patient can electronically access a comprehensive treatment planning, support, and review system. The system can provide recommendations regarding diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment based on data gathered from the patient and the medical professional(s).Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Namal Nawana, Michael Gorhan, William J. Frasier, William C. Horton, Mark T. Hall, Matthew Parsons, Jennifer DiPietro, Christopher Nordstrom
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Patent number: 11798676Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, a patient can be tracked throughout medical treatment including through initial onset of symptoms, diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment. In one embodiment, a patient and one or more medical professionals involved with treating the patient can electronically access a comprehensive treatment planning, support, and review system. The system can provide recommendations regarding diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment based on data gathered from the patient and the medical professional(s).Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Namal Nawana, William C. Horton, William J. Frasier, Cody Cranson, Max Reinhardt, Mark T. Hall, Matthew Parsons, Jennifer DiPietro, Douglas Raymond, James Paiva
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Patent number: 11749396Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, a patient can be tracked throughout medical treatment including through initial onset of symptoms, diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment. In one embodiment, a patient and one or more medical professionals involved with treating the patient can electronically access a comprehensive treatment planning, support, and review system. The system can provide recommendations regarding diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment based on data gathered from the patient and the medical professional(s).Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Namal Nawana, William J. Frasier, Jennifer DiPietro, Christopher Nordstrom, Michelle LaWare, John Paul Griffin, Sean P. Selover, Jonathan Bellas, Matthew Parsons
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Publication number: 20230020249Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for surgical instruments, systems, and methods for preventing skiving of a drilling instrument during a robotic or robot-assisted surgery are disclosed. In one embodiment, a scan of a patient's anatomy can be performed to produce a model of the bone to be drilled into and analysis of the surface can determine if the curvature is such that, if a target trajectory for a bore were followed, skiving of the drilling instrument is likely. If so, an alternate anti-skiving trajectory can be determined. The anti-skiving trajectory of a bore differs from the target trajectory by at least one of entry point, diameter, axis, or depth.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: William J. Frasier, Robert Brik, Richard Patrick Courtis, Tarik Yardibi, Marc Puls, Matias De La Fuente Klein, Lukas Theisgen, Manuel Vossel, Klaus Radermacher
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Publication number: 20230013550Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for end effector identification in robotic surgical systems. A surgical robot can be coupled to an end effector. The system can identify the end effector using data received from the end effector. The system can adjust operation of the surgical system, including the robot arm, based on the data received from the end effector. Data received from or regarding the end effector can include detected characteristics, retrieved characteristics, or data stored on the end effector and communicated to the system. Both the identification and the operation adjustments can be performed automatically such that the system experiences little to no lag or downtime when coupling with different end effectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Robert Brik, Tarik Yardibi, William J. Frasier, Marc Puls, Brice Dudley, JR.
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Publication number: 20220008137Abstract: Surgical systems and methods are disclosed, including, in one embodiment, a system having a coupling system disposed on a distal end portion of a surgical robot arm that secures a navigation array to the robot arm in a plurality of different orientations. The system further includes a navigation system configured to determine a precise location of the distal end portion by measuring a precise location of the navigation array by visually observing the navigation array, receiving a location of the coupling system via one or more encoders in the robot arm, determining the orientation of the navigation array relative to the robot arm based on the visual observation of the navigation array and the received location of the coupling system, and determining the precise location of the distal end portion of the surgical robot arm based on a known spatial relationship between the distal end portion and the coupling system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Robert Brik, William J. Frasier, Marc Puls, Richard Patrick Courtis
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Patent number: 10595844Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, a patient can be tracked throughout medical treatment including through initial onset of symptoms, diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment. In one embodiment, a patient and one or more medical professionals involved with treating the patient can electronically access a comprehensive treatment planning, support, and review system. The system can provide recommendations regarding diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment based on data gathered from the patient and the medical professional(s).Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Namal Nawana, William C. Horton, William J. Frasier, Cody Cranson, Max Reinhardt, Mark T. Hall, Matthew Parsons, Jennifer DiPietro, Kevin Lee, Michelle LaWare, John P. Griffin, Sean P. Selover, Jonathan Bellas, Douglas Raymond, Nicholas Pavento, Mary L. Fowler, Dennis Chien
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Publication number: 20190216452Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, a patient can be tracked throughout medical treatment including through initial onset of symptoms, diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment. In one embodiment, a patient and one or more medical professionals involved with treating the patient can electronically access a comprehensive treatment planning, support, and review system. The system can provide recommendations regarding diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment based on data gathered from the patient and the medical professional(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Namal Nawana, William C. Horton, William J. Frasier, Michael O'Neil, Robert E. Sommerich, Jennifer DiPietro, Matthew Parsons
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Publication number: 20190110784Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, a patient can be tracked throughout medical treatment including through initial onset of symptoms, diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment. In one embodiment, a patient and one or more medical professionals involved with treating the patient can electronically access a comprehensive treatment planning, support, and review system. The system can provide recommendations regarding diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment based on data gathered from the patient and the medical professional(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Namal Nawana, Michael Gorhan, William J. Frasier, William C. Horton, Mark T. Hall, Matthew Parsons, Jennifer DiPietro, Christopher Nordstrom
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Patent number: 10166019Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, data related to retraction of tissue can be gathered during performance of a surgical procedure. In one embodiment, the data can be used during performance of the surgical procedure, e.g., to determine whether a length of time a tissue is retracted using a retractor reaches a predetermined threshold amount of time, an amount of tissue retraction reaches a predetermined amount of tissue, and an amount of pressure being placed on tissue and/or nerves as a result of retraction reaches a predetermined amount of pressure, and/or the data can be used after performance of the surgical procedure, e.g., in determining a correlation between the data and patient pain level data.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Namal Nawana, Michael Gorhan, William J. Frasier, Cody Cranson, Hassan Serhan, Michael O'Neil, Matthew Parsons, Jennifer DiPietro, Christopher Nordstrom, John Griffin, Sean Selover, Jonathan Bellas, Michelle LeClerc
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Publication number: 20180344308Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, a patient can be tracked throughout medical treatment including through initial onset of symptoms, diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment. In one embodiment, a patient and one or more medical professionals involved with treating the patient can electronically access a comprehensive treatment planning, support, and review system. The system can provide recommendations regarding diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment based on data gathered from the patient and the medical professional(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Namal Nawana, William C. Horton, William J. Frasier, Cody Cranson, Max Reinhardt, Mark T. Hall, Matthew Parsons, Jennifer DiPietro, Kevin Lee, Michelle LaWare, John P. Griffin, Sean P. Selover, Jonathan Bellas, Douglas Raymond, Nicholas Pavento, Mary L. Fowler, Dennis Chien
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Publication number: 20180344309Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, a patient can be tracked throughout medical treatment including through initial onset of symptoms, diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment. In one embodiment, a patient and one or more medical professionals involved with treating the patient can electronically access a comprehensive treatment planning, support, and review system. The system can provide recommendations regarding diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment based on data gathered from the patient and the medical professional(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Namal Nawana, William C. Horton, William J. Frasier, Cody Cranson, Max Reinhardt, Mark T. Hall, Matthew Parsons, Jennifer DiPietro, Douglas Raymond, James Paiva
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Patent number: 9700292Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, a patient can be tracked throughout medical treatment including through initial onset of symptoms, diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment. In one embodiment, a patient and one or more medical professionals involved with treating the patient can electronically access a comprehensive treatment planning, support, and review system. The system can provide recommendations regarding diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment based on data gathered from the patient and the medical professional(s).Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Namal Nawana, William C. Horton, William J. Frasier, Hassan A. Serhan, Michael O'Neil, Robert E. Sommerich, Jennifer DiPietro, Christopher Nordstrom, Matthew Parsons, Thomas Martin
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Publication number: 20160338685Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, a patient can be tracked throughout medical treatment including through initial onset of symptoms, diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment. In one embodiment, a patient and one or more medical professionals involved with treating the patient can electronically access a comprehensive treatment planning, support, and review system. The system can provide recommendations regarding diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment based on data gathered from the patient and the medical professional(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Namal Nawana, William J. Frasier, Jennifer DiPietro, Christopher Nordstrom, Michele LeClerc, John Paul Griffin, Sean P. Selover, Jonathan Bellas, Matthew Parsons
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Patent number: 9357908Abstract: A blade extending tower is provided for setting blade depth on retractors having telescoping or extending blades. The blade extending tower features a base, a column extending from the base, and mating features on the column configured to engage the blades of a retractor to extend the blades to a desired blade depth. Blade depth of the retractor is set buy sliding the retractor onto the blade extending tower such that the mating features of the blade extending tower engage the blades or the retractor, stopping the blades progression while the rest of the retractor continues along the length of the column. Thus the blades of the retractor are extended from the retractor to a depth determined by the configuration of the blade extending tower.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2009Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: William J. Frasier, Connie P. Marchek, Timothy Beardsley, Michael Zajack
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Patent number: 9254126Abstract: The present invention provides a non-rigid retractor for providing access to a surgical site, such as a patient's spine, during a surgical process. When used in spinal surgery, the non-rigid retractor allows a surgeon to operate on one or more spinal levels. The non-rigid retractor includes at least one flexible strap anchored at a first end to the spine or other internal body part at the surgical site. The body of the at least one flexible strap extends from a skin incision and is anchored at a second location external to the body to retract skin and muscle from the surgical site, allowing adequate visualization of the surgical site and providing access for implants and surgical instruments to pass through the retractor and into the surgical site.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2011Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: William J. Frasier, Timothy Beardsley, Connie P. Marchek
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Publication number: 20150282796Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, a patient can be tracked throughout medical treatment including through initial onset of symptoms, diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment. In one embodiment, a patient and one or more medical professionals involved with treating the patient can electronically access a comprehensive treatment planning, support, and review system. The system can provide recommendations regarding diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment based on data gathered from the patient and the medical professional(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Namal Nawana, Michael Gorhan, William J. Frasier, Cody Cranson, Hassan Serhan, Michael O'Neil, Matthew Parsons, Jennifer DiPietro, Christopher Nordstrom, John Griffin, Sean Selover, Jonathan Bellas, Michelle LeClerc