Patent ID: 11918481
Assignee: MUSC FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. An expandable device, comprising:
(a) a pair of superior arms arranged in parallel with an opposing a pair of inferior arms, each arm comprising an anterior end and a posterior end, and each of the opposing pairs of arms comprising opposing slots in their anterior and posterior ends; and
(b) an expansion system comprising bolts, crossbars, and pins, the bolts arranged in parallel as pairs, the bolts in each pair connected by crossbars, each pair of bolts positioned, respectively, in the opposing anterior and posterior slots of the opposing inferior and superior arms, each bolt secured within a slot by a pin fixed to each arm;, wherein the expansion system of bolts, crossbars and pins moves the arms between a closed configuration and an open configuration upon rotation of the bolts within the slots, and wherein movement of the arms to the open configuration includes separating the arms to simultaneously expand the device in each of a height dimension and a width dimension.