Patents by Inventor Brian Schmitz

Brian Schmitz 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).

  • Patent number: 12642536
    Abstract: A surgical method includes operating, by a surgical robot, in a first mode, detecting a crossing of an object from a first side of a boundary to a second side of the boundary, switching, in response to the crossing of the object from the first side of the boundary to the second side of the boundary, the surgical robot from the first mode to a second mode, and operating, by the surgical robot, in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: MAKO SURGICAL CORP.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Publication number: 20250082342
    Abstract: A surgical robotics system includes a robot, a tool coupled to the robot, and control circuitry programmed to determine a movement of the tool to within a threshold distance relative to a planned path and control, in response to the movement, the robot to automatically move the tool to a target point on the planned path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Publication number: 20250032126
    Abstract: A surgical method includes operating, by a surgical robot, in a first mode, detecting a crossing of an object from a first side of a boundary to a second side of the boundary, switching, in response to the crossing of the object from the first side of the boundary to the second side of the boundary, the surgical robot from the first mode to a second mode, and operating, by the surgical robot, in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Patent number: 12150652
    Abstract: A method of operating a surgical system includes controlling a robotic arm in a first control mode in which the robotic arm constrains movement of a surgical tool coupled to the robotic arm to a virtual geometry correlated with an anatomical feature, switching, responsive to the surgical tool crossing an exit boundary, from the first control mode to a second control mode, and controlling the robotic arm in the second control mode in which movement of the surgical tool is unconstrained by the virtual geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Publication number: 20240081833
    Abstract: A method of operating a surgical system includes controlling a robotic arm in a first control mode in which the robotic arm constrains movement of a surgical tool coupled to the robotic arm to a virtual geometry correlated with an anatomical feature, switching, responsive to the surgical tool crossing an exit boundary, from the first control mode to a second control mode, and controlling the robotic arm in the second control mode in which movement of the surgical tool is unconstrained by the virtual geometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Patent number: 11857201
    Abstract: A system includes a surgical tool, a robot holding the surgical tool, and non-transitory computer-readable memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the robot to perform operations including automatically moving the surgical tool to a virtual geometry correlated with an anatomical structure and forcing, following arrival of the surgical tool at the virtual geometry, the surgical tool to stay at the virtual geometry while allowing manual repositioning of the surgical tool along the virtual geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Patent number: 11857200
    Abstract: A surgical system includes a robotic arm, an end effector held by the robotic arm, a tracking system configured to detect a patient position and an end effector position, and a processor and non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to define a planned trajectory relative to the patient position, obtain the patient position and the end effector position from the tracking system during manual movement of the end effector by a user, determine whether the end effector position is within a threshold of the planned trajectory based on the patient position and the end effector position obtained during the manual movement of the end effector, and upon determination that the end effector position is within the threshold of the planned trajectory, take over and control the robotic arm to automatically align the end effector with the planned trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Publication number: 20220151639
    Abstract: A system includes a surgical tool, a robot holding the surgical tool, and non-transitory computer-readable memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the robot to perform operations including automatically moving the surgical tool to a virtual geometry correlated with an anatomical structure and forcing, following arrival of the surgical tool at the virtual geometry, the surgical tool to stay at the virtual geometry while allowing manual repositioning of the surgical tool along the virtual geometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Publication number: 20220142655
    Abstract: A surgical system includes a robotic arm, an end effector held by the robotic arm, a tracking system configured to detect a patient position and an end effector position, and a processor and non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to define a planned trajectory relative to the patient position, obtain the patient position and the end effector position from the tracking system during manual movement of the end effector by a user, determine whether the end effector position is within a threshold of the planned trajectory based on the patient position and the end effector position obtained during the manual movement of the end effector, and upon determination that the end effector position is within the threshold of the planned trajectory, take over and control the robotic arm to automatically align the end effector with the planned trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Patent number: 11278296
    Abstract: A surgical system includes a surgical tool and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to provide a plurality of virtual haptic interaction points where each virtual haptic interaction point is associated with a portion of the surgical tool such that movement of the surgical tool corresponds to movement of the plurality of virtual haptic interaction points, establish a haptic object that defines a working boundary for the surgical tool, and constrain at least one of the portions of the surgical tool based on a relationship between at least one of the plurality of virtual haptic interaction points and the haptic object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Patent number: 11259816
    Abstract: A surgical system includes a surgical tool associated with a virtual haptic interaction point such that movement of the virtual haptic interaction point corresponds to movement of the surgical tool. The surgical system further includes a processing circuit to establish a virtual entry boundary and activate a haptic object, which constrains the surgical tool after the haptic interaction point crosses the virtual entry boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Patent number: 11016983
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, gradient boosted decision trees are used to generate tree interaction features, which encode a set of decision rules for features of search results and hence allow feature interactions. These tree interaction features may then be used as features of a GLMix model, essentially injecting non-linearity into the GLMix model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Cagri Ozcaglar, Sahin Cem Geyik, Brian Schmitz, Prakhar Sharma, Erik Eugene Buchanan
  • Publication number: 20200170651
    Abstract: A surgical system includes a surgical tool and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to provide a plurality of virtual haptic interaction points where each virtual haptic interaction point is associated with a portion of the surgical tool such that movement of the surgical tool corresponds to movement of the plurality of virtual haptic interaction points, establish a haptic object that defines a working boundary for the surgical tool, and constrain at least one of the portions of the surgical tool based on a relationship between at least one of the plurality of virtual haptic interaction points and the haptic object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Patent number: 10595880
    Abstract: A surgical system includes a surgical tool and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to provide a plurality of virtual haptic interaction points where each virtual haptic interaction point is associated with a portion of the surgical tool such that movement of the surgical tool corresponds to movement of the plurality of virtual haptic interaction points, establish a haptic object that defines a working boundary for the surgical tool, and constrain at least one of the portions of the surgical tool based on a relationship between at least one of the plurality of virtual haptic interaction points and the haptic object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Publication number: 20200065396
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, gradient boosted decision trees are used to generate tree interaction features, which encode a set of decision rules for features of search results and hence allow feature interactions. These tree interaction features may then be used as features of a GLMix model, essentially injecting non-linearity into the GLMix model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Cagri Ozcaglar, Sahin Cem Geyik, Brian Schmitz, Prakhar Sharma, Erik Eugene Buchanan
  • Publication number: 20190357918
    Abstract: A surgical system includes a surgical tool associated with a virtual haptic interaction point such that movement of the virtual haptic interaction point corresponds to movement of the surgical tool. The surgical system further includes a processing circuit to establish a virtual entry boundary and activate a haptic object, which constrains the surgical tool after the haptic interaction point crosses the virtual entry boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Patent number: 10398449
    Abstract: A surgical system includes a surgical tool associated with a virtual haptic interaction point such that movement of the virtual haptic interaction point corresponds to movement of the surgical tool. The surgical system further includes a processing circuit to establish a virtual entry boundary and activate a haptic object, which constrains the surgical tool after the haptic interaction point crosses the virtual entry boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Publication number: 20170265872
    Abstract: A surgical system includes a surgical tool and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to provide a plurality of virtual haptic interaction points where each virtual haptic interaction point is associated with a portion of the surgical tool such that movement of the surgical tool corresponds to movement of the plurality of virtual haptic interaction points, establish a haptic object that defines a working boundary for the surgical tool, and constrain at least one of the portions of the surgical tool based on a relationship between at least one of the plurality of virtual haptic interaction points and the haptic object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Jason Otto, Radu Iorgulescu, Chris Lightcap, Brian Schmitz, Jason Wojcik, Carinne Cecile Granchi
  • Patent number: 9370916
    Abstract: An oxygen-scavenging multi-layer container and methods of making, controlling, and using the same are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Mullinix Packages, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Schmitz, Luther A. Gross, Boh C. Tsai, Matt Schiffli, Gary Klimek
  • Patent number: 9340316
    Abstract: An oxygen-scavenging multi-layer container and methods of making, controlling, and using the same are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Mullinix Packages, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Schmitz, Luther A. Gross, Boh C. Tsai, Matt Schiffli, Gary Klimek