Surgery – Instruments – Stereotaxic device
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-03
2007-04-03
Rollins, Rosiland (Department: 3739)
Surgery
Instruments
Stereotaxic device
C414S001000, C414S002000, C606S001000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10321171
ABSTRACT:
The present invention was developed by a neurosurgeon and seeks to mimic the results of primate neurological research which is indicative of a human's actual neurological control structures and logic. Specifically, the motor proprioceptive and tactile neurophysiology functioning of the surgeon's hands and internal hand control system from the muscular level through the intrafusal fiber system of the neural network is considered in creating the robot and method of operation of the present invention. Therefore, the surgery is not slowed down as in the art, because the surgeon is in conscious and subsconscious natural agreement and harmonization with the robotically actuated surgical instruments based on neurological mimicing of the surgeon's behavior with the functioning of the robot. Therefore, the robot can enhance the surgeon's humanly limited senses while not introducing disruptive variables to the surgeon's naturally occurring operation of his neurophysiology. This is therefore also a new field, neurophysiological symbiotic robotics.
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