Patent ID: 9572588
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F

Claim:
1. A device for performing a surgical procedure on a knee joint, comprising: a sensor plate for removable placement within the knee joint during the surgical procedure; a plurality of sensors disposed within the sensor plate and configured to sense force or pressure on medial and lateral sides of the knee joint; a processor coupled to the plurality of sensors and configured to process sensed force or pressure data into usable data; and a visual display coupled to the processor and including separate individual medial and lateral readouts, each readout in the form of a single value expressed by one or more numerical digits, the medial readout being configured to display the usable data as a numeric representation of the sensed force or pressure on the medial side of the knee joint, the lateral readout being configured to display the usable data as a numeric representation of the sensed force or pressure on the lateral side of the knee joint.