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US 2024/0389997 A1Published application
Multiple Suture Placement System
AssigneeCypris Medical, Inc.
InventorsChristopher P. Godek, Michael V. Chobotov, Daniel Holton
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Abstract
A suturing system including apparatus and methods for disposing sutures in a substrate.
Claims9
1-35. (canceled)
An apparatus, comprising:
- a suturing probe having a first and a second suturing probe recessed external surface, said first suturing probe recessed external surface delimiting a first open area and said second suturing probe recessed external surface delimiting a second open area;
- said first and second recessed external surfaces oppositely facing;
- a first and a second thread capture chamber, said first thread capture chamber opening into said first open area and said second thread capture chamber opening into said second open area;
- a first and second substrate capture chamber, said first substrate capture chamber having a respective first chamber port open to said first open area, said second substrate capture chamber having a respective second chamber port open to said second open area,
- a pair of thread carrier passages one opening into each of said first and second open recessed areas of said suturing probe first and second recessed external surfaces;
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- a pair of thread carriers correspondingly slidably engaged in said pair of thread carrier passages, each of said pair of thread carriers correspondingly extendable from said pair of thread carrier passages within said first and second open areas defined by said first and second external recessed surfaces and outside of said substrate capture chambers into a corresponding one of said pair of thread capture chambers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.