Patents by Inventor Rajkumar VENKATESALU

Rajkumar VENKATESALU 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).

  • Phantom to determine positional and angular navigation system error
    Patent number: 10682126
    Abstract: A phantom to determine navigational error in a surgical navigation system that tracks the location of an elongate tool having a tip and a shaft based on a plurality of fiducials attached to the elongate tool. The phantom includes a base portion that models a lower portion of a mammalian head and having a top surface with a plurality of touch points, each of the touch points being a respective indentation, and a frame detachably securable to the base portion and having an upper portion spaced apart from the top surface, the upper portion having defined therein a plurality of apertures. A tip of the elongate tool is to be inserted through said one of the apertures and in one of the touch points, and the surgical navigation system determines positional and angular error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Synaptive Medical (Barbados) Inc.
    Inventors: Aisha Sial, Katlin Jean Kreamer-Tonin, Rajkumar Venkatesalu, Sean Jy-Shyang Chen
  • PHANTOM TO DETERMINE POSITIONAL AND ANGULAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM ERROR
    Publication number: 20180185014
    Abstract: A phantom to determine navigational error in a surgical navigation system that tracks the location of an elongate tool having a tip and a shaft based on a plurality of fiducials attached to the elongate tool. The phantom includes a base portion that models a lower portion of a mammalian head and having a top surface with a plurality of touch points, each of the touch points being a respective indentation, and a frame detachably securable to the base portion and having an upper portion spaced apart from the top surface, the upper portion having defined therein a plurality of apertures. A tip of the elongate tool is to be inserted through said one of the apertures and in one of the touch points, and the surgical navigation system determines positional and angular error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Aisha SIAL, Katlin Jean KREAMER-TONIN, Rajkumar VENKATESALU, Sean Jy-Shyang CHEN