Patent ID: 7516924

Claim:
A medical boom, comprising: a stationary base configured to be installed into an operating room; a plurality of boom arms, each of the plurality of boom arms being supported by the stationary base and configured to extend over an operating table in the operating room and having at least an associated pair of boom arm segments that are coupled together by a boom arm joint; and a plurality of appendage arms, each appendage arm being mounted on an associated boom arm and having at least an associated pair of appendage arm segments that are coupled together by an appendage arm joint, each of the appendage arms being configured to support an associated display monitor that can be positioned in the horizontal and the vertical planes substantially surrounding the operating table, wherein a first appendage arm of the plurality of appendage arms is mounted on an attachment joint mounted on one of the boom arm segments associated with a first one of the boom arms, the attachment joint being situated between first and second ends of the first one of the boom arms.