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US 7,614,258 B2Granted
Prosthetic repair fabric
AssigneeC.R. Bard, Inc.
InventorsDennis Cherok, Rocco DiGregorio, Alan Grumbling, Michael Kirby
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Abstract
The repair fabric includes a dual bar warp knit mesh for use in repairing soft tissue and muscle wall defects, including hernia repair and chest wall reconstruction. The repair fabric may be produced according to a first bar pattern chain of 4/2 4/6 4/2 6/8 6/4 6/8 and a second bar pattern chain of 6/8 2/0 6/8 4/2 8/10 4/2.
Claims15
An implantable prosthetic repair fabric, comprising:
- a knit mesh that includes a plurality of generally polygonal shaped primary pores defined by knitted strands of filaments;
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- a pair of individual filaments that extend across each primary pore to define a plurality of secondary pores within each primary pore, each of the pair of individual filaments extending substantially parallel to one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.