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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2015
Applicant:
Specialty Surgical Instrumentation, Inc., Antioch, TN (US);
Inventors:
Victor Agbodoe, Stoughton, MA (US);
Olaf Storz, Emmingen, DE;
Assignee:
Specialty Surgical Instrumentation, Inc., Antioch, TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E04G 3/00 (2006.01); F16M 13/02 (2006.01); F16M 11/40 (2006.01); F16C 11/06 (2006.01); A61B 90/50 (2016.01); A61B 90/57 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16M 13/022 (2013.01); A61B 90/50 (2016.02); F16C 11/0661 (2013.01); F16M 11/40 (2013.01); A61B 2090/508 (2016.02); A61B 2090/571 (2016.02); F16M 2200/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A universal arm has a proximal end, a distal end, and a middle portion therebetween. The middle portion has a plurality of interconnected ball and socket pieces. A plurality of clamps is selectively fixedly connected to the distal end of the universal arm by a connection that permits the selective rotation of each one of the plurality of clamps by 360° with respect to the distal end of the universal arm.