Appeal 2006-1914
Application 09/764,609
1 may be initialized for the selected type of instrument body. (Chader,
2 col. 3, ll. 30-34.)
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4 15. In yet another aspect, the medical instrument will preferably include
5 means for detecting when the attachment has been connected to the
6 instrument body and then subsequently removed. (Chader, col. 3, ll.
7 51-54.)
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9 16. In still a further alternative aspect, the particular type of instrument
10 body is detected upon connection of the attachment to the instrument
11 body. (Chader, col. 4, ll. 41-43.)
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13 17. [T]he location of the medical instrument 12 may be tracked relative
14 to the patient P in real time and correlated with the previously
15 produced images of the patient’s body which are displayed on a
16 screen 28 of the host computer 18. To track the medical instrument
17 12 in this manner, the medical instrument 12 is advanced into the
18 patient P while the energy-emitting elements 20 are energized and
19 detected by the sensor assembly 16. The elements 26 on the reference
20 frame 24 are also energized and detected so that the location of the
21 medical instrument 12 relative to the patient P may be tracked by the
22 processor 14, even when the patient P is moved. (Chader, col. 5, ll.
23 51-62.)
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25 18. An image can be produced on the screen 28 showing a position
26 marker of the instrument 12 relative to the previously produced
27 images of the body. (Chader, col. 5, l. 66 – col. 6, l., 2.)
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29 19. [T]he processor 14 will be able to recognize the characteristics of the
30 medical instrument 12 upon connection of the instrument to the
31 processor 14 without requiring the manual entry of the instrument’s
32 type or other configuration information into the processor 14.
33 (Chader, col. 6, ll. 56-60.)
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35 20. [T]he medical instrument 12 may optionally be provided with one or
36 more buttons 46 that is placed in communication with a read switch
37 controller 48 when the instrument 12 is connected to the processor 14.
38 When the button 46 is depressed, the read switch controller 48 signals
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