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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2015
Applicant:
Atlantic Health System, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Eric D. Whitman, Mountain Lakes, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Atlantic Health System, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/32 (2006.01); A61B 17/02 (2006.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/0218 (2013.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.02);
Abstract
The present invention provides a surgical retractor that provides improved access to a surgical space, devised in the shape of a partial polyhedron, and also provides improved visualization of the surgical space with light emitting elements placed within the polyhedron structure.