Patent ID: 11864857
Assignee: GLOBUS MEDICAL INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 10:
11. A surgical system comprising:
a tracking system configured to determine a pose of an anatomical structure that is to be cut by a saw blade and to determine a pose of the saw blade;
a surgical robot comprising:
a robot base;
a robot arm connected to the robot base;
at least one motor operatively connected to move the robot arm relative to the robot base;

a blade guidance system comprising:
an end effector arm including a base configured to attach to an end effector coupler of the robot arm, wherein the end effector arm includes a plurality of linkages connected by a plurality of joints, including a proximal joint disposed at a proximal end of the end effector arm and a distal joint disposed at a distal end of the end effector arm;
a blade adaptor adapted to rotatably connect to the end effector arm about a rotation axis via the distal joint, wherein the distal joint is positioned on a horizontal plane that is below a horizontal plane defined by the proximal joint;
a blade adapted to be connected to the blade adaptor and having a blade rotation axis aligned with the rotation axis when the blade adaptor is connected to the distal joint; and
a handpiece adapted to attach to the blade adaptor and the blade and oscillate the blade along the blade rotation axis,

wherein the blade rotation axis extends perpendicular to a plane of oscillation of the blade.