Patents by Inventor Alexander Barthel

Alexander Barthel 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).

  • Publication number: 20250246291
    Abstract: A surgical exercise performed with a surgical robotic system is sensed by depth cameras, generating 3D point cloud data. Robot system data associated with the surgical robotic system is logged. Object recognition is performed on image data produced by the one or more depth cameras, to recognized objects, including surgical equipment and people, in the operating room (OR). The surgical exercise is digitized by storing the 3D point cloud data of unrecognized objects, a position and orientation associated with the recognized objects, and c) the robot system data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Blade A. Olson, Bernhard A. Fuerst, Alexander Barthel, Yiming Xu, Giacomo Taylor, Tianyu Song
  • Publication number: 20250127588
    Abstract: A medical image viewer can render to a display, a three-dimensional view of patient anatomy, a multi planar reconstruction (MPR) view of the patient anatomy, and an intra-operational view. Some of the views can be synchronized to show a common focal point of the anatomy. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Bernhard A. Fuerst, Alexander Barthel, Eric M. Johnson, Risto Kojcev
  • Patent number: 12237072
    Abstract: A surgical exercise performed with a surgical robotic system is sensed by depth cameras, generating 3D point cloud data. Robot system data associated with the surgical robotic system is logged. Object recognition is performed on image data produced by the one or more depth cameras, to recognized objects, including surgical equipment and people, in the operating room (OR). The surgical exercise is digitized by storing the 3D point cloud data of unrecognized objects, a position and orientation associated with the recognized objects, and c) the robot system data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Verb Surgical Inc.
    Inventors: Blade A. Olson, Bernhard A. Fuerst, Alexander Barthel, Yiming Xu, Giacomo Taylor, Tianyu Song
  • Patent number: 12144690
    Abstract: A medical image viewer can render to a display, a three-dimensional view of patient anatomy, a multi planar reconstruction (MPR) view of the patient anatomy, and an intra-operational view. Some of the views can be synchronized to show a common focal point of the anatomy. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Verb Surgical Inc.
    Inventors: Bernhard A. Fuerst, Alexander Barthel, Eric M. Johnson, Risto Kojcev
  • Publication number: 20240366305
    Abstract: A system includes a display, and a processor. The processor may be configured to obtain a three-dimensional model of a patient including one or more blood vessels and a mass that is marked for removal, determine a position of each of one or more surgical clips within the three-dimensional model, where blood flow is restricted from a region of the three-dimensional model based on the one or more blood vessels of the three-dimensional model and the position of each of the one or more surgical clips, and present, to the display, the three-dimensional model of the patient including a visual indication of the region and the mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander BARTHEL, Ashwath Narayan MURALI, Bernhard FUERST, Risto KOJCEV, Kristina YEVSEYEVA
  • Publication number: 20240038367
    Abstract: A surgical exercise performed with a surgical robotic system is sensed by depth cameras, generating 3D point cloud data. Robot system data associated with the surgical robotic system is logged. Object recognition is performed on image data produced by the one or more depth cameras, to recognized objects, including surgical equipment and people, in the operating room (OR). The surgical exercise is digitized by storing the 3D point cloud data of unrecognized objects, a position and orientation associated with the recognized objects, and c) the robot system data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Blade A. Olson, Bernhard A. Fuerst, Alexander Barthel, Yiming Xu, Giacomo Taylor, Tianyu Song
  • Patent number: 11756672
    Abstract: A surgical exercise performed with a surgical robotic system is sensed by depth cameras, generating 3D point cloud data. Robot system data associated with the surgical robotic system is logged. Object recognition is performed on image data produced by the one or more depth cameras, to recognized objects, including surgical equipment and people, in the operating room (OR). The surgical exercise is digitized by storing the 3D point cloud data of unrecognized objects, a position and orientation associated with the recognized objects, and c) the robot system data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Verb Surgical Inc.
    Inventors: Blade Olson, Bernhard A. Fuerst, Alexander Barthel, Yiming Xu, Giacomo Taylor, Tianyu Song
  • Patent number: 11534246
    Abstract: User input devices (UIDs) for controlling a surgical robotic system are described. A UID can include one or more tracking sensors to generate respective spatial state signals in accordance with a pose of the UID. At least one of the tracking sensors can be a camera. In the case of multiple tracking sensors, the spatial state signals are processed by a sensor fusion algorithm to generate a more robust, single tracking signal and a quality measure. The tracking signal and the quality measure are then used by a digital control system to control motion of a surgical robotic system actuator that is associated with the UID. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: VERB SURGICAL INC.
    Inventors: Bernhard Adolf Fuerst, Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy, Berk Gonenc, Jose Luis Cordoba, Joan Savall, Alexander Barthel
  • Publication number: 20210378754
    Abstract: A surgical exercise performed with a surgical robotic system is sensed by depth cameras, generating 3D point cloud data. Robot system data associated with the surgical robotic system is logged. Object recognition is performed on image data produced by the one or more depth cameras, to recognized objects, including surgical equipment and people, in the operating room (OR). The surgical exercise is digitized by storing the 3D point cloud data of unrecognized objects, a position and orientation associated with the recognized objects, and c) the robot system data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Blade Olson, Bernhard A. Fuerst, Alexander Barthel, Yiming Xu, Giacomo Taylor, Tianyu Song
  • Publication number: 20210259779
    Abstract: Surgical robotic system includes a surgical robotic arm, a handheld user interface device (UID) having a camera. Images from the camera are processed to detect a marker in the user environment. A pose of the handheld UID is determined based on the detected marker. A movement of the surgical robotic arm is effected based on the pose of the handheld UID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Bernhard A. Fuerst, Alexander Barthel
  • Publication number: 20210236233
    Abstract: A medical image viewer can render to a display, a three-dimensional view of patient anatomy, a multi planar reconstruction (MPR) view of the patient anatomy, and an intra-operational view. Some of the views can be synchronized to show a common focal point of the anatomy. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Bernhard A. Fuerst, Alexander Barthel, Eric M. Johnson, Risto Kojcev
  • Publication number: 20190380791
    Abstract: User input devices (UIDs) for controlling a surgical robotic system are described. A UID can include one or more tracking sensors to generate respective spatial state signals in accordance with a pose of the UID. At least one of the tracking sensors can be a camera. In the case of multiple tracking sensors, the spatial state signals are processed by a sensor fusion algorithm to generate a more robust, single tracking signal and a quality measure. The tracking signal and the quality measure are then used by a digital control system to control motion of a surgical robotic system actuator that is associated with the UID. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Bernhard Adolf Fuerst, Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy, Berk Gonenc, Jose Luis Cordoba, Joan Savall, Alexander Barthel
  • Patent number: 10289636
    Abstract: A method and system for accessing database tables that contain binary large objects (BLOBs) is disclosed. The method includes encapsulating BLOB-based tables with virtual tables, which allows a user to access the content of the BLOBs via SQL. In one example, the virtual table has a generic table structure that consists of columns (e.g., class name, field name, and field value) and information regarding what level of an object hierarchy contains an element. In another example, a user can define the structure of the virtual table by identifying which object attributes to report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Martin Pfeifle, Jan Richter, Alexander Barthel
  • Patent number: 9160817
    Abstract: A page server and method of using the page server is described. The page server stores versioned pages. The pages, which are equally sized data chunks, can be stored with identifiers and version data in a relational database, in separate files, or in a single file where pages are concatenated. The page server may be accessed via SQL, a web interface, a proprietary key/value/version interface on top of TCP/IP, or other method. The page server facilitates incremental updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Jan Richter, Martin Pfeifle, Christof Kaiser, Peter Skvarenina, Alexander Barthel
  • Publication number: 20140025731
    Abstract: A page server and method of using the page server is described. The page server stores versioned pages. The pages, which are equally sized data chunks, can be stored with identifiers and version data in a relational database, in separate files, or in a single file where pages are concatenated. The page server may be accessed via SQL, a web interface, a proprietary key/value/version interface on top of TCP/IP, or other method. The page server facilitates incremental updates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Navteq B.V.
    Inventors: Jan Richter, Martin Pfeifle, Christof Kaiser, Peter Skvarenina, Alexander Barthel
  • Patent number: 8566346
    Abstract: A page server and method of using the page server is described. The page server stores versioned pages. The pages, which are equally sized data chunks, can be stored with identifiers and version data in a relational database, in separate files, or in a single file where pages are concatenated. The page server may be accessed via SQL, a web interface, a proprietary key/value/version interface on top of TCP/IP, or other method. The page server facilitates incremental updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Navteq B.V.
    Inventors: Jan Richter, Martin Pfeifle, Christof Kaiser, Peter Skvarenina, Alexander Barthel
  • Publication number: 20120036150
    Abstract: A page server and method of using the page server is described. The page server stores versioned pages. The pages, which are equally sized data chunks, can be stored with identifiers and version data in a relational database, in separate files, or in a single file where pages are concatenated. The page server may be accessed via SQL, a web interface, a proprietary key/value/version interface on top of TCP/IP, or other method. The page server facilitates incremental updates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: NAVTEQ NORTH AMERICA, LLC
    Inventors: Jan Richter, Martin Pfeifle, Christof Kaiser, Peter Skvarenina, Alexander Barthel
  • Publication number: 20110196890
    Abstract: A method and system for accessing database tables that contain binary large objects (BLOBs) is disclosed. The method includes encapsulating BLOB-based tables with virtual tables, which allows a user to access the content of the BLOBs via SQL. In one example, the virtual table has a generic table structure that consists of columns (e.g., class name, field name, and field value) and information regarding what level of an object hierarchy contains an element. In another example, a user can define the structure of the virtual table by identifying which object attributes to report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: NAVTEQ NORTH AMERICA, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Pfeifle, Jan Richter, Alexander Barthel