Patent ID: 11896314
Assignee: STRYKER CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 8:
9. A system comprising:
an instrument adapted to be manually supported and moved by a user, the instrument including:
a hand-held portion;
a working portion including a cutting accessory movably coupled to the hand-held portion;
a plurality of actuators operatively coupled to the working portion for moving the working portion in a plurality of degrees of freedom relative to the hand-held portion, each of the plurality of actuators including a motor; and
a plurality of sensors for sensing positions of the working portion relative to the hand-held portion; and
a control system in communication with the actuators to control the actuators to move the working portion relative to the hand-held portion, the control system configured to:
determine whether the cutting accessory is within a snapping radius of a location where a void space is to be formed; and
controlling the motors of the plurality of actuators to position the cutting accessory so that a distal end of the cutting accessory is positioned above a location at which the void space is to be formed when the cutting accessory is within the snapping radius, the snapping radius being less than a maximum deflection radius of the cutting accessory relative to the hand-held portion.