Patent ID: 11969223
Assignee: SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A system for performing a computer-assisted surgical procedure on a bone of a patient, the system comprising:
a patient-matched surgical guide configured to couple to the bone in a single spatial orientation, the patient-matched surgical guide comprising an inner surface conforming to the bone in the single spatial orientation and one or more registration sites disposed on a non-bone contacting surface;
a surgical tool comprising a cutting tip, a registration feature configured to contact each registration site, and one or more tracking markers;
a tracking device comprising one or more sensors configured to detect of the one or more tracking markers;
a processor; and
a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to:
receive, from the tracking device, location information related to the detected one or more tracking markers when the registration feature is in contact with each registration site,
register, based on the location information, a location of the bone,
track, based on the location information, a location of the cutting tip with respect to the location of the bone, and
control the cutting tip according to a surgical plan based on the location of the cutting tip.