US 12,447,399 B1
Clinical apparatus for evaluating and improving manual dexterity
Julie J. Corbett, Cold Spring, NY (US)
Assigned to Julie Jones Corbett LLC, Cold Spring, NY (US)
Filed by Julie J. Corbett, Cold Spring, NY (US)
Filed on Aug. 28, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/818,395.
Application 18/818,395 is a continuation of application No. 18/236,835, filed on Aug. 22, 2023, abandoned.
Application 18/236,835 is a continuation of application No. 16/152,137, filed on Oct. 4, 2018, granted, now 11,745,090, issued on Sep. 5, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/567,972, filed on Oct. 4, 2017.
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A63F 9/06 (2006.01)
CPC A63F 9/0666 (2013.01) [A61B 5/1124 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A clinical manual dexterity instrument, comprising:
an interior, unobstructed, open, hollow collection base having a plurality of upright sides;
a lid removably received on said interior, unobstructed, open, hollow collection base, whereby said lid and plurality of upright sides forming an interior unobstructed, open, hollow interior space therebetween; and
a plurality of identical-shaped and identical-sized openings on said lid, said plurality of identical-shaped openings configured to receive identical-shaped and identical-sized control objects, whereby the identical-shaped and identical-sized control objects passing through any of said plurality of identical-shaped and identical-sized openings are received in the interior unobstructed, open, hollow interior space of said interior, unobstructed, open, hollow collection base, wherein said plurality of identical-shaped and identical-sized openings are configured on said lid in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns and at a plurality of angles with respect to each other to clinically measure and/or improve manual dexterity of only a single hand of a user, wherein the identical-shaped and identical-sized control objects are a predetermined number of small common objects including coins, nuts, bolts, buttons, bottle caps, pills, checkers, or earrings held in a single hand simultaneously, and said plurality of identical-shaped and identical-sized openings have an identical-shape and identical-size as the identical-shaped and identical-sized control objects.