Patent ID: 11950865
Assignee: GLOBUS MEDICAL INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 10:
11. A surgical robot system for detecting the expected movement of a surgical instrument associated with the robot system, said robot system comprising:
a robot base;
a robot arm connected to and in electronic communication with the robot base;
an end-effector connected to the robot arm and in electronic communication with the robot based, wherein the end-effector comprises a guide tube, and
wherein at least one strain gauge is positioned on a surgical instrument coupled to the end-effector, each strain gauge is configured to measure forces associated with the insertion force of the surgical instrument disposed in the guide tube, and
wherein the robot base is configured to receive the measured forces and indicate when the measured forces are outside of an expected range for the measured forces;
wherein the robot base is configured to monitor a bone movement of the patient caused by a lateral force of the surgical instrument through a dynamic reference array attached to the patient; and
wherein the robot base is configured to automatically adjust the guide tube of the robot system to offset the bone movement based on the monitoring of the bone movement.