Patents by Inventor Neil Jeffrey WITCOMB
Neil Jeffrey WITCOMB 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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Patent number: 11733337Abstract: A computing device: compares an anatomical magnetic resonance (MR) image of a patient region and reference anatomical data associated with the region to determine a first transform of a bore anatomical coordinate space of the anatomical MR image to a patient anatomical coordinate space associated with the patient; determines, from the first transform, a second transform of a bore DWMR coordinate space of a DWMR image to a patient DWMR coordinate space associated with the patient, the anatomical and the DWMR images being in respective bore coordinate spaces associated with a bore of an MR device which acquired the anatomical and the DWMR images; transforms, using the second transform, the DWMR image to the patient DWMR coordinate space; and controls a display screen to render the DWMR image, as transformed, according to visual attributes associated with the patient DWMR coordinate space.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Neil Jeffrey Witcomb, Simon Kenley Alexander
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Patent number: 11666222Abstract: A monitoring method and system for providing visual enhancements during a medical procedure is described. The method includes capturing current visual information of a site during the medical procedure in real time, storing at least a portion of the captured visual information as stored visual information, identifying a feature of interest in at least one of the current visual information and the stored visual information; generating feedback data associated with the feature of interest, and displaying a virtual representation of the feedback data overlaid on the current visual information.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Bradley Allan Fernald, Gal Sela, Neil Jeffrey Witcomb
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Patent number: 11622699Abstract: The navigation systems and methods facilitate aligning a tool in relation to a trajectory in real-time to receive input data from a pre-operative plan image, at least one multi-modal image, and at least one real-time multi-modal image; interactively track at least one neural fiber, whereby interactively tracked fiber data is obtainable; automatically generate output data by way of data transformation using the input data and the interactively tracked neural fiber data; and transmit the output data to at least one of: at least one display device for rendering at least one real-time interactive navigation display for facilitating neural navigation, and at least one drive device for positioning at least one tracking device in relation to the tool in real-time, whereby real-time alignment data is achievable, and whereby at least one neurological structure is preservable.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Inventors: Gal Sela, Neil Jeffrey Witcomb
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Publication number: 20220167868Abstract: The navigation systems and methods facilitate aligning a tool in relation to a trajectory in real-time to receive input data from a pre-operative plan image, at least one multi-modal image, and at least one real-time multi-modal image; interactively track at least one neural fiber, whereby interactively tracked fiber data is obtainable; automatically generate output data by way of data transformation using the input data and the interactively tracked neural fiber data; and transmit the output data to at least one of: at least one display device for rendering at least one real-time interactive navigation display for facilitating neural navigation, and at least one drive device for positioning at least one tracking device in relation to the tool in real-time, whereby real-time alignment data is achievable, and whereby at least one neurological structure is preservable.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Gal SELA, Neil Jeffrey WITCOMB
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Patent number: 11278353Abstract: The navigation systems and methods facilitate aligning a tool in relation to a trajectory in real-time to receive input data from a pre-operative plan image, at least one multi-modal image, and at least one real-time multi-modal image; interactively track at least one neural fiber, whereby interactively tracked fiber data is obtainable; automatically generate output data by way of data transformation using the input data and the interactively tracked neural fiber data; and transmit the output data to at least one of: at least one display device for rendering at least one real-time interactive navigation display for facilitating neural navigation, and at least one drive device for positioning at least one tracking device in relation to the tool in real-time, whereby real-time alignment data is achievable, and whereby at least one neurological structure is preservable.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Gal Sela, Neil Jeffrey Witcomb
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Publication number: 20210282647Abstract: A monitoring method and system for providing visual enhancements during a medical procedure is described. The method includes capturing current visual information of a site during the medical procedure in real time, storing at least a portion of the captured visual information as stored visual information, identifying a feature of interest in at least one of the current visual information and the stored visual information; generating feedback data associated with the feature of interest, and displaying a virtual representation of the feedback data overlaid on the current visual information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Bradley Allan FERNALD, Gal SELA, Neil Jeffrey WITCOMB
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Patent number: 11026585Abstract: A monitoring method and system for providing visual enhancements during a medical procedure is described. The method includes capturing current visual information of a site during the medical procedure in real time, storing at least a portion of the captured visual information as stored visual information, identifying a feature of interest in at least one of the current visual information and the stored visual information; generating feedback data associated with the feature of interest, and displaying a virtual representation of the feedback data overlaid on the current visual information.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Synaptive Medical Inc.Inventors: Bradley Allan Fernald, Gal Sela, Neil Jeffrey Witcomb
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Publication number: 20200405174Abstract: A computing device: compares an anatomical magnetic resonance (MR) image of a patient region and reference anatomical data associated with the region to determine a first transform of a bore anatomical coordinate space of the anatomical MR image to a patient anatomical coordinate space associated with the patient; determines, from the first transform, a second transform of a bore DWMR coordinate space of a DWMR image to a patient DWMR coordinate space associated with the patient, the anatomical and the DWMR images being in respective bore coordinate spaces associated with a bore of an MR device which acquired the anatomical and the DWMR images; transforms, using the second transform, the DWMR image to the patient DWMR coordinate space; and controls a display screen to render the DWMR image, as transformed, according to visual attributes associated with the patient DWMR coordinate space.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Neil Jeffrey WITCOMB, Simon Kenley ALEXANDER
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Patent number: 10593052Abstract: Methods and image-guided surgical navigation systems for updating an existing landmark registration of one or more landmark features in a common coordinate space are provided. The image-guided surgical navigation system includes a processor, an imaging device coupled to the processor, and a memory coupled to the processor. The image-guided surgical navigation system may be configured to capture a planar image of a region of interest, where the planar view image includes illustration of the one or more landmark features; generate a depth map from the planar view image; based on the depth map, identify a current location of the one or more landmark features in the common coordinate space; and transform the existing landmark registration to the current location of the one or more landmark features in the common coordinate space.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Synaptive Medical (Barbados) Inc.Inventors: Kamyar Abhari, Neil Jeffrey Witcomb, Stewart David McLachlin, Kai Michael Hynna, Gal Sela
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Patent number: 10588702Abstract: A surgical navigation system and method for identifying positions on a patient, including a processor, and a tracking system for tracking a pointer tool. The processor is programmed to initialize a surface trace acquisition, continuously record the positions of the pointer tool during the surface, conduct trace acquisition, combine the positions recorded during the surface trace acquisition into a surface trace, receive a patient image of the patient, extract a surface from the patient image, compute a registration transform between the surface traces and the surface for patient registration, segment the patient image into a regions where each region contains an anatomical landmark, determine a spatial distribution of surface traces among the regions; determine whether the spatial distribution in relation to each region minimizes deviance below a threshold, and if the determination is exceeding the threshold, provide information relating to such region.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Inventors: Neil Jeffrey Witcomb, Sepide Movaghati, Adam Taylor Scott
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Publication number: 20190365252Abstract: A monitoring method and system for providing visual enhancements during a medical procedure is described. The method includes capturing current visual information of a site during the medical procedure in real time, storing at least a portion of the captured visual information as stored visual information, identifying a feature of interest in at least one of the current visual information and the stored visual information; generating feedback data associated with the feature of interest, and displaying a virtual representation of the feedback data overlaid on the current visual information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Bradley Allan FERNALD, Gal SELA, Neil Jeffrey WITCOMB
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Publication number: 20190336225Abstract: A surgical navigation system and method for identifying positions on a patient, including a processor, and a tracking system for tracking a pointer tool. The processor is programmed to initialize a surface trace acquisition, continuously record the positions of the pointer tool during the surface, conduct trace acquisition, combine the positions recorded during the surface trace acquisition into a surface trace, receive a patient image of the patient, extract a surface from the patient image, compute a registration transform between the surface traces and the surface for patient registration, segment the patient image into a regions where each region contains an anatomical landmark, determine a spatial distribution of surface traces among the regions; determine whether the spatial distribution in relation to each region minimizes deviance below a threshold, and if the determination is exceeding the threshold, provide information relating to such region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Neil Jeffrey WITCOMB, Sepide MOVAGHATI, Adam Taylor SCOTT
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Patent number: 10413366Abstract: A trajectory guidance alignment system configurable to receive input data from an image, interactively track at least one user position, interactively track a tool position, automatically generate output data by way of data transformation using at least one of the input data, the user position data, and the tool position data, and transmit the output data to the display of a navigation system for rendering a real-time interactive navigation view corresponding to a surgical view for facilitating navigation of a medical procedure.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Synaptive Medical (Bardbados) Inc.Inventors: Kelly Noel Dyer, Neil Jeffrey Witcomb, Michael Jonathan Rotenberg
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Patent number: 10390892Abstract: A surgical navigation system and method for identifying positions on a patient, including a processor, and a tracking system for tracking a pointer tool. The processor is programmed to initialize a surface trace acquisition, continuously record the positions of the pointer tool during the surface, conduct trace acquisition, combine the positions recorded during the surface trace acquisition into a surface trace, receive a patient image of the patient, extract a surface from the patient image, compute a registration transform between the surface traces and the surface for patient registration, segment the patient image into a regions where each region contains an anatomical landmark, determine a spatial distribution of surface traces among the regions; determine whether the spatial distribution in relation to each region minimizes deviance below a threshold, and if the determination is exceeding the threshold, provide information relating to such region.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Inventors: Neil Jeffrey Witcomb, Sepide Movaghati, Adam Taylor Scott
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Publication number: 20190060004Abstract: A surgical navigation system and method for identifying positions on a patient, including a processor, and a tracking system for tracking a pointer tool. The processor is programmed to initialize a surface trace acquisition, continuously record the positions of the pointer tool during the surface, conduct trace acquisition, combine the positions recorded during the surface trace acquisition into a surface trace, receive a patient image of the patient, extract a surface from the patient image, compute a registration transform between the surface traces and the surface for patient registration, segment the patient image into a regions where each region contains an anatomical landmark, determine a spatial distribution of surface traces among the regions; determine whether the spatial distribution in relation to each region minimizes deviance below a threshold, and if the determination is exceeding the threshold, provide information relating to such region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Neil Jeffrey WITCOMB, Sepide MOVAGHATI, Adam Taylor SCOTT
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Publication number: 20190066314Abstract: Methods and image-guided surgical navigation systems for updating an existing landmark registration of one or more landmark features in a common coordinate space are provided. The image-guided surgical navigation system includes a processor, an imaging device coupled to the processor, and a memory coupled to the processor. The image-guided surgical navigation system may be configured to capture a planar image of a region of interest, where the planar view image includes illustration of the one or more landmark features; generate a depth map from the planar view image; based on the depth map, identify a current location of the one or more landmark features in the common coordinate space; and transform the existing landmark registration to the current location of the one or more landmark features in the common coordinate space.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Kamyar ABHARI, Neil Jeffrey WITCOMB, Stewart David MCLACHLIN, Kai Michael HYNNA, Gal SELA
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Patent number: 10111717Abstract: The application as disclosed herein describes systems and methods for performing patient registration using a surgical navigation system. This application attempts to provide for improvements upon existing systems through the addition of refinement steps used to increase the accuracy of registration and streamline said process. In some cases the improvements generally involve the manipulation of spatial data in an iterative manner.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Synaptive Medical (Barbados) Inc.Inventors: Dorothy Lui, Gal Sela, Aisha Sial, Sepide Movaghati, Kirusha Srimohanarajah, Sean Jy-Shyang Chen, Simon Kenley Alexander, Neil Jeffrey Witcomb
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Publication number: 20180168735Abstract: The application as disclosed herein describes systems and methods for performing patient registration using a surgical navigation system. This application attempts to provide for improvements upon existing systems through the addition of refinement steps used to increase the accuracy of registration and streamline said process. In some cases the improvements generally involve the manipulation of spatial data in an iterative manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Dorothy LUI, Gal SELA, Aisha SIAL, Sepide MOVAGHATI, Kirusha SRIMOHANARAJAH, Sean Jy-Shyang CHEN, Simon Kenley ALEXANDER, Neil Jeffrey WITCOMB
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Publication number: 20170265947Abstract: A trajectory guidance alignment system configurable to receive input data from an image, interactively track at least one user position, interactively track a tool position, automatically generate output data by way of data transformation using at least one of the input data, the user position data, and the tool position data, and transmit the output data to the display of a navigation system for rendering a real-time interactive navigation view corresponding to a surgical view for facilitating navigation of a medical procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2016Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Kelly Noel DYER, Neil Jeffrey WITCOMB, Michael Jonathan ROTENBERG
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Publication number: 20170265943Abstract: The navigation systems and methods facilitate aligning a tool in relation to a trajectory in real-time to receive input data from a pre-operative plan image, at least one multi-modal image, and at least one real-time multi-modal image; interactively track at least one neural fiber, whereby interactively tracked fiber data is obtainable; automatically generate output data by way of data transformation using the input data and the interactively tracked neural fiber data; and transmit the output data to at least one of: at least one display device for rendering at least one real-time interactive navigation display for facilitating neural navigation, and at least one drive device for positioning at least one tracking device in relation to the tool in real-time, whereby real-time alignment data is achievable, and whereby at least one neurological structure is preservable.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2016Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Gal SELA, Neil Jeffrey WITCOMB