Patent ID: 11857273
Assignee: GLOBUS MEDICAL INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A

Claim 18:
19. The surgical robot system of claim 1, further comprising a tracking camera operative to track pose of markers on the robot arm and/or the end-effector, and wherein the at least one processor is operative to:
after tracking pose of the end-effector relative to the anatomical structure captured in the image volume based on the US imaging data for a period of time and responsive to the US transducer ceasing to output US imaging data of the anatomical structure proximately located to the end-effector, trigger continued tracking of the pose of the end-effector relative to the anatomical structure captured in the image volume based on output of the tracking camera; and
responsive to the US transducer resuming output of US imaging data of the anatomical structure proximately located to the end-effector, trigger continued tracking of the pose of the end-effector relative to the anatomical structure captured in the image volume based on the US imaging data.