Patents by Inventor Mohan Bodduluri

Mohan Bodduluri 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: 9202276
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for hair transplantation and other surgical procedures on a body surface. Specifically, methods and systems for computer-implemented and/or robotic hair transplantation and other surgical procedures, using time constrained image processing techniques are described. In various examples, multiple images of a body surface may be divided into overlapping sub regions for comparison. In various other cases, a percentage of an image of a body surface to be processed may be adjusted based on a time constraint. In some implementations, the output of one of these methods may be used as input for the other method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Zhang, Mohan Bodduluri
  • Publication number: 20150112204
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selecting follicular units in a distribution of follicular units are provided. A selection parameter, such as a distance-related parameter separating the follicular units to be selected, may be used to determine a desired quantity of follicular units to be selected, such as a desired percentage of follicular units to be selected, and to help provide a substantially uniform distribution of selected follicular units. In addition, a characteristic parameter, such as a characteristic distance or characteristic density, may be determined. The characteristic parameter may be used in determining the desired quantity of follicular units to be selected and or may be used for treatment purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohan (a.k.a. Radhika Mohan) Bodduluri, Gabriele Zingaretti
  • Publication number: 20150112364
    Abstract: A variety of systems and methods are described which enable quantitative information to be extracted regarding automated procedures, including those performed at a high speed that may require a user input, without having to interrupt the procedure. In addition, these systems and methods serve to provide information on one or more parameters of the automated procedure, whereby they may be modified, if required, to improve the automated procedure or the results from such a procedure. The systems and methods provided are especially useful in automated hair transplantation procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriele Zingaretti, Mohan Bodduluri, Miguel G. Canales, Brian E. Tippett
  • Patent number: 8986324
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for harvesting hair grafts from a body surface utilizing a removal tool comprising first and second elongated bodies. The described systems and methods serve to eliminate and/or at least minimize unnecessary compression of adjacent tissue during the removal process, thereby minimizing damage to the follicular unit being removed, reducing the opportunities for the follicular unit to intersect the path of the harvesting tool, and/or improving the quality of the removed specimen, preferably preserving its integrity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohan Bodduluri, Kyle R. Breton, Clifford A. Oostman, Jr., George D. Hermann
  • Publication number: 20150066054
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided useful in various procedures, including hair harvesting and implantation, and further including computer-implemented and/or robotic hair transplantation. Methodologies are provided which enable a tool, such as a hair harvesting or a hair implantation tool, to proceed at least under a partial computer control in a selected direction of travel along a donor or recipient area of the patient, as well as changing direction of travel based on desired harvesting and/or implantation criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Tenney, Mohan (a.k.a. Radhika Mohan) Bodduluri, Hui Zhang
  • Patent number: 8951266
    Abstract: A variety of systems and methods are described which enable quantitative information to be extracted regarding automated procedures, including those performed at a high speed that may require a user input, without having to interrupt the procedure. In addition, these systems and methods serve to provide information on one or more parameters of the automated procedure, whereby they may be modified, if required, to improve the automated procedure or the results from such a procedure. The systems and methods provided are especially useful in automated hair transplantation procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriele Zingaretti, Mohan Bodduluri, Miguel G. Canales, Brian E. Tippett
  • Patent number: 8945150
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selecting follicular units in a distribution of follicular units are provided. A selection parameter, such as a distance-related parameter separating the follicular units to be selected, may be used to determine a desired quantity of follicular units to be selected, such as a desired percentage of follicular units to be selected, and to help provide a substantially uniform distribution of selected follicular units. In addition, a characteristic parameter, such as a characteristic distance or characteristic density, may be determined. The characteristic parameter may be used in determining the desired quantity of follicular units to be selected and or may be used for treatment purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohan Bodduluri, Gabriele Zingaretti
  • Patent number: 8911453
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided useful in various procedures, including hair harvesting and implantation, and further including computer-implemented and/or robotic hair transplantation. Methodologies are provided which enable a tool, such as a hair harvesting or a hair implantation tool, to proceed at least under a partial computer control in a selected direction of travel along a donor or recipient area of the patient, as well as changing direction of travel based on desired harvesting and/or implantation criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Tenney, Mohan Bodduluri, Hui Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140270422
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for hair transplantation and other surgical procedures on a body surface. Specifically, methods and systems for computer-implemented and/or robotic hair transplantation and other surgical procedures, using time constrained image processing techniques are described. In various examples, multiple images of a body surface may be divided into overlapping sub regions for comparison. In various other cases, a percentage of an image of a body surface to be processed may be adjusted based on a time constraint. In some implementations, the output of one of these methods may be used as input for the other method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Zhang, Mohan (a.k.a. Radhika Mohan) Bodduluri
  • Publication number: 20140261467
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating a treatment plan for cosmetic procedures, for example, a hair transplantation procedure, are provided. The treatment plan automatically modifies or generates one or more proposed harvesting or implantation sites within a first hair element based on one or more parameters in one or more second hair elements. Various techniques and methods described in the application provide for improved planning of a natural looking hair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Zhang, Mohan (a.k.a. Radhika Mohan) Bodduluri, Gabriele Zingaretti, Theodore Thuong Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20140276092
    Abstract: A method of detecting a change in tension of a body surface during a medical procedure is provided. In some embodiments the method may be carried out without additional invasive devices or procedures being required. In one example the methodology is applied when using any type of body surface tensioning device. The tensioning device comprises fiducials that are visible to an image acquisition device. In another example of an embodiment of the current application, the methodology may be applied by attaching fiducials directly to the body surface. The relative motion of the fiducials relative to one another may be utilized to determine a change in body surface tension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Tenney, Mohan (a.k.a. Radhika Mohan) Bodduluri, Gabriele Zingaretti, Clifford A. Oostman, JR.
  • Publication number: 20140155912
    Abstract: Automated systems and methods for operating a procedure tool to perform a procedure (for example, hair transplantation) on a body are provided. One or more mechanisms are configured to produce a combination movement of the procedure tool in response to control signals. A force sensor monitors resistance as the tool moves and transmits information from the force sensor to a computer. Movement of the procedure tool is controlled at least in part based on information from the force sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohan Bodduluri, Philip L. Gildenberg, Donald E. Caddes
  • Patent number: 8690894
    Abstract: An automated system for harvesting or implanting follicular units, including a moveable arm; a harvesting and/or implantation tool mounted on the moveable arm; one or more cameras mounted on the moveable arm; a processor configured to receive and process images acquired by the one or more cameras; and a controller operatively associated with the processor and configured to position the moveable arm based, at least in part, on processed images acquired by the one or more cameras, wherein the moveable arm is positionable such that the tool may be positioned at a desired orientation relative to an adjacent body surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohan Bodduluri, Philip L. Gildenborg, Donald E. Caddes
  • Publication number: 20130287286
    Abstract: A variety of systems and methods are described which enable quantitative information to be extracted regarding automated procedures, including those performed at a high speed that may require a user input, without having to interrupt the procedure. In addition, these systems and methods serve to provide information on one or more parameters of the automated procedure, whereby they may be modified, if required, to improve the automated procedure or the results from such a procedure. The systems and methods provided are especially useful in automated hair transplantation procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriele Zingaretti, Mohan Bodduluri, Miguel G. Canales, Brian E. Tippett, Hui Zhang
  • Patent number: 8545517
    Abstract: Tools and methods are provided for dissecting and/or removing biological units, such as hair follicles, from the body surface based on the images both above and below a body surface to reduce potential damage to the removed biological unit. The invention may be used in fully automated systems and also in a hand-held devices and systems. A system may produce a series of three-dimensional images of the body surface indicating follicular unit size, shape, position, and orientation both above and below the skin surface. The images may be utilized by an automated follicular unit harvesting tool, or maybe stored for later use. Imaging techniques include devices that sense light in the visible or infrared spectrums, optical coherence tomography, and ultrahigh frequency ultrasound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohan Bodduluri, Joseph A. Heanue, Kate L. Bechtel, Brian P. Wilfley
  • Publication number: 20130190776
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided useful in various procedures, including hair harvesting and implantation, and further including computer-implemented and/or robotic hair transplantation. Methodologies are provided which enable selection of follicular unit harvesting or implanting sites. In various cases, such selection may be made using a lowest and closest method, overlap-based methods, position-based methods, pattern-based methods, and/or a combination of these methods. In various combinations of the methods, the output selection from one of the methods may be used as an input for one of the other methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Zhang, Radhika Mohan Bodduluri
  • Patent number: 8457279
    Abstract: A patient positioning assembly is described. The patient positioning assembly including a plate member rotatably mounted on a base member, and an arm extending between a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is rotatably attached to the plate member. The patient positioning assembly further including a support device rotatably attached to the second end of the arm to support a patient thereon, with the support device is configured to move the patient in at least five degrees of freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Accuray Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Saracen, James Wang, Euan Thomson, Eric Earnst, Chris Raanes, Mohan Bodduluri
  • Patent number: 8454627
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining the need to change and/or changing orientation of a tool relative to an object on a body in at least partially automated procedure. Also, systems and methods are provided for orienting a hair harvesting tool relative to a follicular unit to be harvested. Further, systems and methods of implanting follicular units are provided, which are based on the orientation of the existing follicular units or based on pre-determined insertion angle. The provided systems and methods use image processing and image-generated topological skin models. In some embodiments surface fit is performed using, for example, a planar fit, quadric fit, cubic fit, mesh fit and parametric fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohan Bodduluri, Gabriele Zingaretti, Miguel G. Canales, Shehrzad A. Qureshi
  • Publication number: 20120296343
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selecting follicular units in a distribution of follicular units are provided. A selection parameter, such as a distance-related parameter separating the follicular units to be selected, may be used to determine a desired quantity of follicular units to be selected, such as a desired percentage of follicular units to be selected, and to help provide a substantially uniform distribution of selected follicular units. In addition, a characteristic parameter, such as a characteristic distance or characteristic density, may be determined. The characteristic parameter may be used in determining the desired quantity of follicular units to be selected and or may be used for treatment purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Mohan (a.k.a Radhika Mohan) Bodduluri, Gabriele Zingaretti
  • Patent number: 8290229
    Abstract: A system and method for counting follicular units using an automated system comprises acquiring an image of a body surface having skin and follicular units, filtering the image to remove skin components in the image, processing the resulted image to segment it, and filtering noise to eliminate all elements other than hair follicles of interest so that hair follicles in an area of interest can be counted. The system may comprise an image acquisition device and an image processor for performing the method. In another aspect, the system and method also classifies the follicular units based on the number of hairs in the follicular unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Shehrzad A. Qureshi, Mohan Bodduluri