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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eric P Potts, Quilcene, WA (US);
Assignee:
Model & Instrument Development Corporation, Poulsbo, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623 38 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for positioning and/or aligning a connector between a prosthetic socket and a prosthetic limb. An alignment assembly may have a rotational positioning module and a sliding adjustment unit to position a connector at a natural joint location for a particular patient. The connector may also independently rotate with respect to the sliding adjustment unit to align the connector faces with a set of natural articulation axes of the patient. After the components are positioned and aligned, the components may be fixed together to provide a fixed connector custom fitted to a particular patient.