Patent ID: 11963899
Assignee: nan
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 15:
16. An energy-sensitive, formable brace, comprising:
one or more pads for cushioning the energy-sensitive, formable brace against the skin of a patient;
one or more flexible outer shells, each flexible outer shell comprising a planar sheet with edges, each flexible outer shell corresponding to one and only one of the one or more pads;
ridges positioned along an edge of each flexible outer shell, wherein the ridges connect the corresponding pad and the corresponding flexible outer shell, thereby defining a gap;
an energy-sensitive polymer that fills the gap, wherein the energy-sensitive polymer is formable when placed into the gap and the energy-sensitive polymer hardens when exposed to an energy source such that the brace is configured to conform to a body part of the patient when the energy-sensitive polymer is formable and the energy-sensitive, formable brace configured to support the body part once the energy-sensitive polymer has hardened; and
hardware for a attaching the energy-sensitive, formable brace to the body part.