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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2007
Mohit Bhatnagar, Potomac, MD (US);
Eric D. Major, Ashburn, VA (US);
Richard W. Woods, Catonsville, MD (US);
Scott A. Jones, McMurray, PA (US);
Robert A. Cripe, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Sanjog Kumar Mathur, Columbia, MD (US);
Mohit Bhatnagar, Potomac, MD (US);
Eric D. Major, Ashburn, VA (US);
Richard W. Woods, Catonsville, MD (US);
Scott A. Jones, McMurray, PA (US);
Robert A. Cripe, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Sanjog Kumar Mathur, Columbia, MD (US);
EBI, LLC, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Abstract
A surgical apparatus. The apparatus includes a handle structure, a shaft structure coupled to the handle structure, and a spreading structure coupled to the shaft structure and movable between a compact and an expanded configuration. The apparatus includes a protective sheath of shape-recovery material. The protective sheath covers the entire spreading structure in a substantially form fitting manner in any configuration of the spreading structure including the compact configuration, the expanded configuration and any configurations therebetween.