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Those of skill in the art will appreciate that the marker 920 may be used to accept guide pins or may be used in other ways to identify reference features. In one embodiment, a marker 920 may be implemented as holes and those holes may be used as guides for a surgeon to drill holes, tunnels, or other openings in one or more bones of patient. The holes formed in the anatomy of the patient may then serve as reference features for a surgical procedure. In still another embodiment, the marker 920 may be a structure made from a material that is detectable by sensors on a surgical assistant such as a robotic surgical device. For example, the marker 920 may be magnetic and a robotic surgical device may sense the marker 920 and use the marker 920 to deploy guide pins or form holes in anatomy of a patient.

Added by DJM Jan 2024