Patent ID: 9529941
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: A61F,G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for automatically creating a design for a conformal hand brace comprising: placing a plurality of markers on a hand of a patient; placing the hand of the patient between a plurality of cameras; simultaneously taking photographs of the markers and the hand of the patient with the plurality of cameras; calculating a digital representation of the hand from the photographs; storing a digital representation of the hand in a computer memory; and automatically designing the conformal hand brace based upon the digital representation of the hand and locations of the markers with a computer processor, the conformal hand brace having a palm region and a thumb region; wherein the conformal hand brace includes a plurality of inner surface regions that inherently correspond to the digital representation of the hand wherein the inner surface regions are offset from the digital representation of the hand and wherein the one or more inner surface regions of the conformal hand brace that are offset from the digital representation of the hand includes a first metacarpal joint region over the thenar eminence of the hand in a negative direction for preventing a first metacarpal joint of the hand from dislocating.