Patent ID: 8747418
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: A61B,F16M

Abstract:
1. A trajectory guide comprising: a guide member; an assembly configured to hold the guide member such that the guide member pivots and rotates with respect to the assembly to obtain a plurality of pivot and rotation alignments between the guide member and the assembly; a lock coupled to the assembly configured to lock the guide member in a particular alignment of the plurality of pivot and rotation alignments; a plurality of legs coupled to the assembly configured to extend from the assembly and position the assembly and the guide member above a surface of a patient, such that a pivot point of the guide member is provided above the surface of the patient; and a trajectory tool configured to orient the guide member in a particular trajectory of a plurality of trajectories by concurrently controlling selection of: one of the plurality of pivot and rotation alignments between the guide member and the assembly, a pivot point alignment of a plurality of pivot point alignments between the assembly and a first end of at least one of the plurality of legs, one of a plurality of pivot and rotation alignments between each of a plurality of feet affixed to the surface of the patient and a corresponding second end of each of the plurality of legs, and an adjustment amount of an adjustable length of at least one of the plurality of legs.