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US 12,758,209 B2Granted
Knotless anchor
AssigneeTigon Medical
InventorsJeremy Clark, Umasuthan Srikumaran, Matthew Thompson
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Abstract
Disclosed are devices, methods and/or systems for securing tissue to bone, including a suture anchor implant having a body through which a suture eyelet extends transversely, and one or more suture pinch slits extending proximally from the suture eyelet, the suture pinch slit(s) angled relative to the longitudinal axis of the anchor.
Claims9
An anchoring system for securing tissue to bone, comprising
- an implant comprising a body having a longitudinal axis, a longitudinally extending lumen extending within at least a portion of the body, a suture eyelet extending transversely through the body with at least a portion of the suture eyelet being in fluid communication with the longitudinally extending lumen, and a first suture pinch slit and a second suture pinch slit, each of the first and second suture pinch slits positioned at a proximal end of a suture recess, wherein the first suture pinch slit is non parallel to the longitudinal axis and is also non parallel to the second suture pinch slit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.