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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2005
Filed:
May. 08, 2003
Leroy M. Wood, Buffalo, NY (US);
William R. Potter, Grand Island, NY (US);
Kenneth R. Weishaupt, Hamburg, NY (US);
Leroy M. Wood, Buffalo, NY (US);
William R. Potter, Grand Island, NY (US);
Kenneth R. Weishaupt, Hamburg, NY (US);
Health Research, Inc., Buffalo, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus which includes a polypod support which includes a fiber optic supporting platform. The fiber optic supporting platform includes an opening. The apparatus further includes at least three legs forming a tripod, each of the legs having two ends, a first end being secured to the fiber optic supporting platform and the second end being adapted for attachment to the skin of the patient, a first tube having an outer diameter, a second tube having an outer diameter and an inner diameter, where the inner diameter of the second tube surrounds the outer diameter of the first tube and where the outer diameter of the second tube is slidably mounted within the opening of the fiber optic surrounding platform and a fiber optic.