Platform for facilitating remote robotic medical procedures
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Publication Number
US-11998287-B1
Publication Date
2024-06-04
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Abstract
A hardware platform includes adapters to interface with medical provisioning equipment involved in a remote robotic medical procedure at a patient site and a software system component, potentially cloud-based, to process real-time incoming data streams and a database to store the data streams for later use or archival. Each data stream can itself contain different types of sensory data. The software system component provides overall control and overrideable supervision over the remote robotic operations includes a state manager that synergistically processes the incoming data streams possibly of varying transmission rates, times of receipt or transmission, resolution, and quality. The state manager forms a near- or real-time virtual representation of the operative field. The software system component includes a data broker that can parse the RTVR into subsets data tailored to the needs of the medical provisioning and monitoring equipment, which may also be deployed and co-located at the patient site.
Core Innovation
A remote robotic procedures platform is described for facilitating remote robotic procedures. The platform includes a plurality of incoming data streams comprising sensory data obtained from provisioning equipment involved in a remote robotic procedure at a target site, with different types of sensory data associated with markers. The platform uses a state manager to receive the incoming data streams even when at least some of the data streams arrive at disparate rates and when at least some of the sensory data is received out of temporal sequence.
The state manager is adapted to synchronize the incoming data streams at least partially based on the markers associated with the sensory data pieces. From the different types of sensory data, the state manager derives a near-real time virtual representation of an operative field at the target site. The near-real time virtual representation is provided to a data broker that parses the near-real time virtual representation into one or more subsets adapted to needs of a requesting component.
The platform further includes a heuristics module adapted to generate using artificial intelligence at least one autonomous control function. The autonomous control function is generated to override a user command by determining a correct time for the user command, detecting the user command prior to the correct time, and generating the autonomous control function based on the detection. The platform transmits at least one outgoing data stream further comprising the at least one autonomous control function directed to the provisioning equipment.
Claims Coverage
Independent claim clm-00001 contains four inventive features spanning marker-based synchronization and near-real time virtual representation, broker-based parsing into tailored subsets, and an AI heuristics module that generates an autonomous control function to override a user command and send it to the provisioning equipment.
Marker-based synchronization and near-real time virtual representation
A platform receives a plurality of incoming data streams comprising different types of sensory data associated with markers into a state manager, where streams may arrive at disparate rates and sensory data may be received out of temporal sequence, and the state manager synchronizes the streams at least partially based on the markers and derives a near-real time virtual representation of an operative field at the target site.
Data broker parsing of tailored subsets of the virtual representation
The platform provides the near-real time virtual representation to a data broker adapted to parse the near-real time virtual representation into one or more subsets adapted to needs of a requesting component.
AI heuristics for autonomous control function overriding user commands
A heuristics module adapted to generate using artificial intelligence at least one autonomous control function comprising determining a correct time for a user command, detecting the user command prior to the correct time, and generating the autonomous control function to override the user command based on the detection.
Outgoing autonomous control function directed to provisioning equipment
The platform includes at least one outgoing data stream further comprising the at least one autonomous control function directed to the provisioning equipment.
The independent claim’s core coverage centers on a marker-based state manager that produces a near-real time virtual representation from asynchronous, out-of-sequence multi-type sensory data; a data broker that parses that representation into subsets for requesting components; and an AI heuristics module that detects and times a user command to generate an autonomous control function that overrides the user command and is directed to provisioning equipment.
Stated Advantages
Supports overcoming limitations of conventional bandwidth/latency in remote surgical robotics, as described in the background context.
Supports addressing radiation exposure limitations associated with conventional remote surgical robotics, as described in the background context.
Provides infrastructure/scale benefits for multi-instance operation, as described in the provided summary context.
Enables tailored subsets of the near-real time virtual representation for different requesting components, as described by the data broker parsing functionality.
Enables autonomous override of a user command based on timing, as described by the AI heuristics module.
Documented Applications
Facilitating remote robotic procedures at a target site using provisioning equipment and providing near-real time virtual representation to requesting components, as described for the platform.
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