Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. McCaulley

Jeffrey A. McCaulley 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).

  • Patient specific instrumentation with MEMS in surgery
    Patent number: 9918658
    Abstract: An assembly of a patient specific instrument and tracking system comprises a patient specific instrument having a body with a patient specific contact surface negatively shaped relative to a corresponding surface of a bone for complementary contact therewith. An inertial sensor unit with a preset orientation is connected to the body in a planned connection configuration, such that a geometrical relation between the contact surface and the inertial sensor unit is known. A tracking system has a tracking processor connected to the inertial sensor unit, a user interface, and bone orientation data related to the patient specific contact surface, the tracking processor producing orientation tracking data for the bone using the geometrical relation and the bone orientation data when the preset orientation of the inertial sensor unit is initialized, to output the orientation tracking data on the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: ORTHOSOFT INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. McCaulley, Louis-Philippe Amiot
  • PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION WITH MEMS IN SURGERY
    Publication number: 20170132389
    Abstract: An assembly of a patient specific instrument and tracking system comprises a patient specific instrument having a body with a patient specific contact surface negatively shaped relative to a corresponding surface of a bone for complementary contact therewith. An inertial sensor unit with a preset orientation is connected to the body in a planned connection configuration, such that a geometrical relation between the contact surface and the inertial sensor unit is known. A tracking system has a tracking processor connected to the inertial sensor unit, a user interface, and bone orientation data related to the patient specific contact surface, the tracking processor producing orientation tracking data for the bone using the geometrical relation and the bone orientation data when the preset orientation of the inertial sensor unit is initialized, to output the orientation tracking data on the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. MCCAULLEY, Louis-Philippe AMIOT
  • Patient specific instrumentation with MEMS in surgery
    Patent number: 9585597
    Abstract: An assembly of a patient specific instrument and tracking system comprises a patient specific instrument having a body with a patient specific contact surface negatively shaped relative to a corresponding surface of a bone for complementary contact therewith. An inertial sensor unit with a preset orientation is connected to the body in a planned connection configuration, such that a geometrical relation between the contact surface and the inertial sensor unit is known. A tracking system has a tracking processor connected to the inertial sensor unit, a user interface, and bone orientation data related to the patient specific contact surface, the tracking processor producing orientation tracking data for the bone using the geometrical relation and the bone orientation data when the preset orientation of the inertial sensor unit is initialized, to output the orientation tracking data on the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: ZIMMER, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. McCaulley, Louis-Philippe Amiot
  • PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION WITH MEMS IN SURGERY
    Publication number: 20140031672
    Abstract: An assembly of a patient specific instrument and tracking system comprises a patient specific instrument having a body with a patient specific contact surface negatively shaped relative to a corresponding surface of a bone for complementary contact therewith. An inertial sensor unit with a preset orientation is connected to the body in a planned connection configuration, such that a geometrical relation between the contact surface and the inertial sensor unit is known. A tracking system has a tracking processor connected to the inertial sensor unit, a user interface, and bone orientation data related to the patient specific contact surface, the tracking processor producing orientation tracking data for the bone using the geometrical relation and the bone orientation data when the preset orientation of the inertial sensor unit is initialized, to output the orientation tracking data on the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicants: ZIMMER, INC., ORTHOSOFT, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. McCaulley, Louis-Philippe AMIOT