Patents Assigned to Surgical Navigation Technologies
  • Patent number: 6021343
    Abstract: A trackable medical instrument for use in a computer assisted image guided medical and surgical navigation systems that generate images during medical and surgical procedures, includes a guide member having an emitter array for being tracked by the system and a drive shaft contained within the guide member having a proximal and a distal end, the drive shaft being rotatable within the guide member while being fixable axially inside the guide member, the proximal end of the drive shaft having a first connector for interchangeably receiving at least one drive source, and the distal end having a second connector for interchangeably receiving at least one instrument tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Surgical Navigation Technologies
    Inventors: Kevin T. Foley, Anthony J. Melkent, Catalina J. Carroll
  • Patent number: D387427
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: Surgical Navigation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Bucholz, Carol Baumann, Todd Pope, Udo Wiedenmaier