Patents by Inventor Mehran Armand
Mehran Armand 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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Publication number: 20200197182Abstract: Provided is a method for forming an implant with an autonomous manufacturing device. The method includes accessing a first computer-readable reconstruction of a being's anatomy; accessing a second computer-readable reconstruction of an implant; accessing a third computer-readable reconstruction comprising the first computer-readable reconstruction superimposed with the second computer readable reconstruction; generating at least one computer-readable trace from a point cloud; and forming an implant with an autonomous manufacturing device, wherein the autonomous manufacturing device forms the implant into a shape defined by at least one dimension of the computer-readable trace.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Farshid ALAMBEIGI, Shahriar SEFATI, Ryan MURPHY, Mehran ARMAND, Chad R. GORDON, Shuya LIU
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Patent number: 10688656Abstract: A continuum device/manipulator includes a first flexible tube, a low melting point (LMP) alloy disposed within the first flexible tube, and a temperature adjustment element that applies heat or cooling to change a phase of the LMP alloy. Changing the phase of the LMP alloy controls a flexibility of the first flexible tube.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Farshid Alambeigi, Reza Seifabadi, Mehran Armand
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Patent number: 10682147Abstract: A surgical guide assembly having an attachment device configured to be coupled to a bone. A cut location indicator is coupled to the attachment device. The cut location indicator identifies a location where the bone is to be cut. An arm is coupled to the attachment device, the cut location indicator, or both. A support structure is coupled to the arm. The support structure is configured to have a trackable feature coupled thereto.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignees: The Johns Hopkins University, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of DefenseInventors: Gerald Grant, Peter Liacouras, Chad Gordon, Ryan Murphy, Mehran Armand
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Patent number: 10631877Abstract: Disclosed is a method of simulating mastication. The method includes obtaining computer-readable three-dimensional representations of a first skeletal fragment including a portion of at least one of a mandible and a maxilla and of a recipient skeletal fragment including a portion of at least one of a mandible and a maxilla. The method also includes obtaining placement data and obtaining muscle insertion data. The method also includes simulating a contraction of a muscle positioned according to the muscle insertion data in a representation of a surgical hybrid comprising at least a portion of the first skeletal fragment positioned according to the placement data relative to at least a portion of the recipient skeletal fragment. The method also includes outputting a representation of mastication represented by the simulating.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignees: The Johns Hopkins University, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, The United States of AMerica, as represented by the Secretary of the DefenseInventors: Ryan Murphy, Ehsan Basafa, Mehran Armand, Chad Gordon, Gerald Grant, Peter Liacouras
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Patent number: 10603175Abstract: Provided is a method for forming an implant with an autonomous manufacturing device. The method includes accessing a first computer-readable reconstruction of a being's anatomy; accessing a second computer-readable reconstruction of an implant; accessing a third computer-readable reconstruction comprising the first computer-readable reconstruction superimposed with the second computer readable reconstruction; generating at least one computer-readable trace from a point cloud; and forming an implant with an autonomous manufacturing device, wherein the autonomous manufacturing device forms the implant into a shape defined by at least one dimension of the computer-readable trace.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYInventors: Farshid Alambeigi, Shahriar Sefati, Ryan Murphy, Mehran Armand, Chad R. Gordon, Shuya Liu
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Publication number: 20200029976Abstract: A method for computer-assisted planning of a transplant surgery is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Chad GORDON, Mehran ARMAND, Ryan MURPHY, Gerald GRANT, Peter LIACOURAS, Kevin WOLFE, Ehsan BASAFA
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Patent number: 10537337Abstract: A computer-assisted surgical system can include a donor sub-system and a recipient sub-system. The donor sub-system includes a first reference unit having a first trackable element, a fragment reference unit having a second trackable element, and a first detector configured to provide at least one of a first signal corresponding to a detected location of one or more of the first trackable element and the second trackable element. The recipient sub-system includes a second reference unit having a third trackable element, and a second detector configured to provide at least one of a second signal corresponding to a detected location of at least the third trackable element.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Inventors: Chad Gordon, Mehran Armand, Ryan Murphy, Gerald Grant, Peter Liacouras, Kevin Wolfe
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Publication number: 20200000480Abstract: An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a continuum dexterous manipulator (CDM) with a specially designed flexible tool, to be used as a handheld or robotic steerable device for treatment of hard-tissue-related diseases. The CDM of the present invention works well in treatment of soft and sticky material (similar to a lesion) as well as milling the hard tissues (e.g. sclerotic liner of osteolytic lesions) and bone tumors. The present invention is also directed to flexible drilling tools as well as characterization and evaluation of integrating these tools with the CDM in curved-drilling of hard bone towards treatment of hard tissue related diseases (e.g. osteonecrosis or pelvic fracture). The present invention can also include use of various types of drill geometries, aspiration and irrigation, and endoscope view in curved-drilling and trajectory planning.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Farshid Alambeigi, Mehran Armand
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Patent number: 10448956Abstract: A method for computer-assisted planning of a transplant surgery is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYInventors: Chad Gordon, Mehran Armand, Ryan Murphy, Gerald Grant, Peter Liacouras, Kevin Wolfe, Ehsan Basafa
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Patent number: 10259129Abstract: Compliant manipulators are provided, in which the manipulators include a plurality of slideably interlocked filaments each having a proximate end and a distal end. The interlocked filaments can be formed from a flexible material. The compliant manipulators can also include at least one filament-actuating device operatively connected to the respective distal ends of the plurality of slideably interlocked filaments. The at least one filament-actuating device can be manipulated directly or remotely to push and/or pull the respective filaments to impart a desired movement to the manipulator. The stiffness or flexibility of the manipulators can also be controlled to provide varying degrees of stiffness during use.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Mehran Armand, Matthew S. Moses, Michael D. Kutzer, Jason E. Tiffany
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Patent number: 10226304Abstract: A shape sensor system includes a deflection sensor comprising an optical fiber having at least one fiber Bragg grating (FBG) written therein and a substrate, the fiber being attached to the substrate with a selected bias distance from a neutral plane of the deflection sensor. The system further includes an optical source coupled to the fiber to provide input light to be at least partially reflected by the FBG, and an optical detection and processing system arranged to receive at least a portion of the output light and to determine a wavelength shift resulting from a change of an amount of deflection of the deflection sensor. The optical detection and processing system determines a relative amount of deflection of the deflection sensor at the FBG based on the wavelength shift. The selected bias distance is selected based on an expected range of deflection angles to be detected.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Iulian Iordachita, Hao Liu, Mehran Armand, Russell H. Taylor, Amirhossein Farvardin
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Publication number: 20170273797Abstract: Provided is a surgical method.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2015Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Chad R. GORDON, Mehran ARMAND, Gerald T. GRANT, Peter LIACOURAS, Ryan MURPHY, Kevin WOLFE
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Publication number: 20170252169Abstract: Provided is a method for forming an implant with an autonomous manufacturing device. The method includes accessing a first computer-readable reconstruction of a being's anatomy; accessing a second computer-readable reconstruction of an implant; accessing a third computer-readable reconstruction comprising the first computer-readable reconstruction superimposed with the second computer readable reconstruction; generating at least one computer-readable trace from a point cloud; and forming an implant with an autonomous manufacturing device, wherein the autonomous manufacturing device forms the implant into a shape defined by at least one dimension of the computer-readable trace.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Farshi ALAMBEIGI, Shahriar SEFATI, Ryan MURPHY, Mehran ARMAND, Chad R. GORDON, Shuya LIU
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Patent number: 9737687Abstract: A device includes first and second sheets of first and second elastic materials, respectively, and a control wire. The first sheet has a first thickness and a first length and is shaped to have a first cross-section having a first inner periphery and a first outer periphery. The second sheet has a second thickness and a second length and is shaped to have a second cross-section having a second inner periphery and a second outer periphery. One of the first sheet and the second sheet has a spacing disposed in along one of the first length and the second length, respectively. The first outer periphery is less than or equal to the second inner periphery. The second sheet surrounds the first sheet. The control wire has an end constrained to one of the first sheet the first material and the second sheet. The control wire is disposed within the spacing.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Mehran Armand, Michael D. Kutzer, Christopher Y. Brown, Russell H. Taylor, Ehsan Basafa
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Patent number: 9715739Abstract: A method of determining bone fragment navigation may include receiving pre-operative 2D image data of a reference bone structure and a bone fragment. The reference bone structure may include a first set of fiducial markers provided thereon, and the bone fragment may include a second set of fiducial markers provided thereon. The method may further include performing a 2D-3D registration between the pre-operative 2D image data and a 3D model of the reference bone structure and the bone fragment, after manual repositioning of the bone fragment, receiving second 2D image data, performing 2D-2D registration of the first set of fiducial markers and the second set of fiducial markers between the pre-operative 2D image data and the second 2D image data, and determining 3D movement of the bone fragment based at least in part on the 2D-2D registration.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2014Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Ryan J. Murphy, Mehran Armand, Robert S. Armiger, Yoshito Otake, Jyri Lepisto
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Publication number: 20170000504Abstract: Provided herein is a computer-implemented method, system, computer-readable medium operable to perform the method for cephalometry for orthognathic and craniomaxillofacial surgery. The method can include transforming a set of cephalometric landmarks from a donor or mobile skeletal fragment in a first reference frame to a second reference frame based on a registration process that maps coordinates from the first reference frame to coordinates in the second reference frame; tracking movement, based on one or more signals from one or more sensors, during surgery, of one or more of the cephalometric landmarks in the set of cephalometric landmarks associated with the donor or mobile skeletal fragment with respect to one or more of the cephalometric landmarks in the set of cephalometric landmarks associated with a recipient or second skeletal portion in the second reference frame; calculating one or more cephalometry metrics; and providing an update of the one or more cephalometry metrics.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2014Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Mehran ARMAND, Ehsan BASAFA, Chad GORDON, Gerald GRANT, Peter LIACOURAS, Ryan MURPHY
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Publication number: 20170000564Abstract: A method for computer-assisted planning of a transplant surgery is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2014Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Chad GORDON, Mehran ARMAND, Ryan MURPHY, Gerald GRANT, Peter LIACOURAS, Kevin WOLFE, Ehsan BASAFA
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Publication number: 20170000565Abstract: Disclosed is a method of simulating mastication. The method includes obtaining computer-readable three-dimensional representations of a first skeletal fragment including a portion of at least one of a mandible and a maxilla and of a recipient skeletal fragment including a portion of at least one of a mandible and a maxilla. The method also includes obtaining placement data and obtaining muscle insertion data. The method also includes simulating a contraction of a muscle positioned according to the muscle insertion data in a representation of a surgical hybrid comprising at least a portion of the first skeletal fragment positioned according to the placement data relative to at least a portion of the recipient skeletal fragment. The method also includes outputting a representation of mastication represented by the simulating.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2014Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Ryan MURPHY, Ehsan BASAFA, Mehran ARMAND, Chad GORDON, Gerald GRANT, Peter Liacouras
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Publication number: 20170000566Abstract: A computer-assisted surgical system can include a donor sub-system and a recipient sub-system. The donor sub-system includes a first reference unit having a first trackable element, a fragment reference unit having a second trackable element, and a first detector configured to provide at least one of a first signal corresponding to a detected location of one or more of the first trackable element and the second trackable element. The recipient sub-system includes a second reference unit having a third trackable element, and a second detector configured to provide at least one of a second signal corresponding to a detected location of at least the third trackable element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Chad GORDON, Mehran ARMAND, Ryan MURPHY, Gerald GRANT, Peter LIACOURAS, Kevin WOLFE
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Publication number: 20170000498Abstract: A surgical guide assembly having an attachment device configured to be coupled to a bone. A cut location indicator is coupled to the attachment device. The cut location indicator identifies a location where the bone is to be cut. An arm is coupled to the attachment device, the cut location indicator, or both. A support structure is coupled to the arm. The support structure is configured to have a trackable feature coupled thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2014Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYInventors: Gerald GRANT, Peter LIACOURAS, Chad GORDON, Ryan MURPHY, Mehran ARMAND