Patent ID: 8702705

Claim:
A progressively adjustable device adapted for electromechanically positioning a bone, said device having a tubular-shaped mainframe with elbow articulations at each end, each elbow articulation having means for electromechanically rotating about an axis to provide relative angulational movement of the device to the bone, the axis being transverse to a longitudinal axis of the tubular-shaped mainframe, said device further comprising: a first clamping unit adapted for attachment to the bone by at least one first bone fastener; a second clamping unit adapted for attachment to the bone by at least one second bone fastener; a translation component operatively driven by a first electromechanical drive for relative translational movement of one clamping unit with respect to the other, either independent or dependent of one another, along a translational axis; and at least one force gauge with an output that is a variable of programmability, the force gauge being located proximate either the first or the second clamping unit.