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156 results about "Suture line" patented technology

Continuous suture one in which a continuous, uninterrupted length of material is used. coronal suture the line of union between the frontal bone and the parietal bones. cranial suture the lines of junction between the bones of the skull.

Suture hole geometry and methods for attaching tissue to orthopedic implants

PendingUS20250345177A1Suture equipmentsJoint implantsAnatomical structuresAnatomical plane
Orthopedic implants and related surgical methods for using same. The implants have suture bore geometries that facilitate performance of the surgical methods, thereby providing for improved optimal biomechanical force application in various anatomies. The implants include suture bores that have an angled / diagonal, or skewed, orientation within the anatomical planes (lateral / sagittal and frontal / coronal). The suture bores have the skewed orientation so that the adjacent soft tissues (i.e., tendons or ligaments) can be advanced via the suture therethrough in superior-inferior and inferior-superior directions. Openings, or holes, at the ends of the suture bores are configured to approximate the adjacent associated soft tissue to the implant.
Owner:ONKOS SURGICAL INC

Distal tibial plating system

Bone plates for engaging bone members are described herein. The bone plates can receive one or more screws to secure the bone plates to an underlying bone member. The one or more screws can be inserted into bone plate holes that can be considered locking or non-locking. The bone plates described herein can have particular combinations of locking and / or non-locking holes. Additional bone plate holes can be used to accept sutures, K-wire, or other instrumentation.
Owner:GLOBUS MEDICAL INC

Devices and method for facilitating placement of sutures in a surgical procedure

A guiding apparatus, system, method, and forceps device for facilitating placement of sutures in a surgical procedure. The apparatus including a shaft portion having a non-circular aperture extending laterally therethrough and a blade portion having a shank extending at an angle from the shaft portion and a blade having a blade aperture extending from the shank. The system includes a plurality of the apparatuses held substantially parallel by an elongated rod through the apertures of the shafts. The blade apertures guide the at least one suture to a desired location to pierce through a target body tissue.
Owner:THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP

Temporalis suturing and fixing device for neurosurgery department

The utility model relates to a temporal muscle suturing and fixing device for neurosurgery, which is characterized in that at least one suturing line is connected onto a screw, and the other end of each suturing line is connected with a suturing needle. The device has the beneficial effects that the screw is directly fixed on the skull; the needle holder is provided with a suture needle to suture temporalis, and the suture needle is removed; the thread on one side of the screw and the thread on the other side of the temporalis can be knotted, fixation after the temporalis is cut open in a neurosurgery operation can be effectively completed, poor fixation of the temporalis is avoided, temporalis atrophy of a patient after an operation is avoided, psychological stress brought to the patient due to unattractive appearance caused by amyotrophy on one side after the operation is avoided, the design is simple and practical, and practicability is high. The device can be popularized to be used in various intracranial operations.
Owner:ZHONGNAN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIV

Clamp and cable

A bone clamp (1, 200, 300) for use in fixation of a fractured bone, or prevention of fracture of a bone, the clamp (1, comprising a pair of handles (2a, 2b) joined together at a pivot point (5), the handles (2a, 2b) each having an arcuate jaw (4a 4b), the arcuate jaws (4a, 4b) comprising a first end (7a, 7b) having an opening at a proximal end (12a, 12b) of the jaw (4a, 4b) in communication with a second end (8a, 8b) having an opening at a distal end (14a, 14b) of the jaw (4a, 4b), the first end (7a, 7b) and second end (8a, 8b) in communication via a channel (6a, 6b), in which the channel (6a, 6b) is configured to accommodate a cable, a wire, a suture, a band or other suitable flexible material, and wherein the channel (6a, 6b) is an open channel.
Owner:BROOK ORTHOPAEDICS LTD

Multispan cinchable loops for knotless spanning of tissue between anchor points and tools for using the same

ActiveUS12484893B2Suture equipmentsLigamentsAnatomyFinger traps
A suture construct includes a single filament of suture forming two cinchable loops from separate finger trap arrangements, with a fixed-length spanning portion extending between fixed portions of the two finger traps. A tail of the suture extends from each finger trap and is slidably disposed therein to cinch the respective loop. The construct can include an anchor slidably coupled to each of the first and second loops. An inserter for the construct includes first and second insertion devices, each having a proximal handle and distal insertion shaft. The two handles couple together to dispose the insertion shafts alongside each other, with a first shaft extending through the second handle shaft and beyond the second shaft. The first handle is coupled proximal to the second such that the first device can be decoupled from the second by removing it proximally, which withdraws the first shaft from the second handle.
Owner:MEDOS INT SARL

Surgical instrument for manipulating and passing suture

A suture passing instrument for manipulating and passing suture through a tissue is disclosed. 5 The instrument includes a handle, an elongate shaft extending from the handle, a hook movably disposed within the elongate shaft. The elongate shaft includes a distal portion having an open end. The hook is movable from a retracted configuration in which at least a portion the hook is situated within the elongate shaft, and a deployed configuration in which the hook extends distally from the open end. The hook is operatively coupled to an actuator of the handle via a 10 coupling member and the hook is moved from the retracted configuration to the deployed configuration be applying tension to the coupling member.
Owner:SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS +2

Suture anchor insertion assembly and method of use

A suture anchor insertion assembly includes a needle pre-attached to a suture or suture tape, the needle being located within a housing of an inserter. The suture extends around a suture bridge of a suture anchor having at least one rib extending through an interior volume. An outer surface of a shaft of the inserter includes a groove sized to receive both the rib of the suture anchor and a length of the suture while still allowing the suture to slide relative to the inserter.
Owner:SMITH & NEPHEW INC +2

Suture passer devices, systems, and methods

PCT designated stageWO2025251027A1Suture equipmentsSurgical needlesAnatomySurgery
A suture passer for passing a suture across a tissue. The suture passer can include an upper jaw member and a lower jaw member extending from an elongate member. The lower jaw member can have a curved portion that offsets a straight portion of the lower jaw member from the central axis of the elongate member. The lower jaw member can house a needle that can be deployed across a tissue to pass a suture across.
Owner:INTEGRITY MEDICAL SERVICES INC

Suture locking systems for performing tensionable knotless surgical procedures

Systems and methods are provided for performing tensionable knotless surgical procedures. A locking ferrule that includes a one-way locking mechanism may be utilized for tensioning and locking one or more strands of suture during the surgical procedure. The one-way locking mechanism may be established by one or more locking barbs of the suture locking device.
Owner:ARTHREX INC

Suture passer devices and methods

Suture passer devices and methods of using the devices having one or more protective interlocks preventing or limiting operation of the suture passer when deployment of the needle may damage the apparatus or harm the patient. For example, described herein are suture passer devices that include an interlock preventing deployment of the tissue penetrator (needle) when the jaws are not clamped onto a tissue. Also described herein are interlocks preventing retraction of a jaw axially until the needle is retracted.
Owner:CETERIX ORTHOPAEDICS INC

System, apparatus, and method for suturing

A surgical system, method, and apparatus for suturing a first anatomical structure to a second anatomical structure of a subject includes an endoscope tube for being advanced through a lumen of the first anatomical structure to a surgical site near the second anatomical structure. A manipulator arm extends through the endoscope tube to the surgical site, and includes a first concentric tube manipulator with an end effector configured to grasp and manipulate a suture at the surgical site. A needle arm extends through the endoscope tube to the surgical site, and includes a second concentric tube manipulator with a needle tip configured to pierce the tissue of the first and second anatomical structures. The needle arm is also configured to grasp the suture and to retract and pull the suture through the pierced tissue so that the suture extends through and forms stitching that stitches together the first and second anatomical structures.
Owner:VANDERBILT UNIV +1

Apparatus and methods for spooled vertebral anchors

Apparatus and method for dynamic connection between adjacent bones. Various embodiments pertain to a bone anchor that includes a rotatable spool, the spool being configured to place tension on a flexible member, such as a tether, suture, cable, or other. Still further embodiments pertain to tools for interconnecting two bone anchors with a tether.
Owner:ORTHOPEDIATRICS CORP

Suture anchor and method for fixating a suture relative to hard tissue

A suture anchor includes a material having thermoplastic properties and is fixated in a hard tissue opening by liquefying at least part of this material and letting it penetrate into walls of the hard tissue opening. During the named fixation and preferably towards the end of it, the suture being held in a distal suture conduit is locked relative to the hard tissue by being clamped between the suture anchor and the wall of the hard tissue opening or by being clamped or braked through collapse of the suture conduit.
Owner:SPORTWELDING

An all-suture meniscal fixator, implant device, and suture fixation method

The application relates to a full-suture meniscus fixator, an implanting device and a suture fixing method, relates to the technical field of medical instruments, and comprises a first fixing part and a second fixing part, a positioning hole is arranged in the middle of the first fixing part, the same positioning holes are arranged at the two ends of the second fixing part, an integral suture is arranged on one side of the first fixing part, one end of the suture away from the first fixing part is sequentially threaded through the positioning hole on the first fixing part and the two positioning holes on the second fixing part, and the suture is wound around the suture between the first fixing part and the second fixing part. The application has the effects of reducing the operation time, reducing the operation difficulty, and improving the operation safety.
Owner:BEIJING DEYIDAMEI MEDICAL TECH CO LTD

Soft glenoid awning and related repair procedures

Systems and methods for opposing abnormal motion of an adjacent bone are provided. One exemplary embodiment of a surgical method includes delivering and securing a bone barrier to a bone bed of a glenoid such that at least a portion of the bone barrier extends laterally beyond the bone bed and can oppose, prevent, and / or reduce abnormal motion of an adjacent bone (e.g., a humeral head). The bone barrier can be secured along a periphery of a glenoid of a shoulder. More particularly, the bone barrier can be placed and secured such that at least a portion of the bone barrier extends laterally over the glenoid and can oppose abnormal motion of the humeral head. In some embodiments at least one suture anchor and suture can secure the bone barrier to the bone bed.
Owner:MEDOS INT SARL

Breakaway suture fixation construct and methods

The embodiments disclosed herein are breakaway suture constructs containing releasable locking connections and / or methods of assembly that allow a plurality of sutures, and / or suture ends to be attached or connected together along a portion of their length to form a spliced region that unifies the sutures or suture ends and prevent movement of a suture end relative to other suture end. The releasable connections allow the surgeon to easily manipulate the spliced suture ends with little or no force to result in the unified ends of the sutures to be separated without requiring cutting or severing of the individual sutures or the releasable locking connections.
Owner:RIVERPOINT MEDICAL LLC

Method and apparatus for creating a seam-like anatomical low creep attachment of soft tissue to bone

Methods and apparatus for creating a seam like array of suture stitches joined in series by sequential anchors in bone. The anchors are transtendon implants positioned through the tendon in the original tendon footprint and each array includes four or more anchors. The seam like array extends across at least a portion of the tendon. The stitches can extend generally perpendicular to the direction of the tendon orientation. In rotator cuff repair, the anchors are positioned in the original footprints of the infraspinatus and / or supraspinatus tendons and the seam like array extends in an anterior to posterior direction across the particular tendons torn and repaired. The entire array of anchors can be positioned in the medial half of the original footprints.
Owner:INTEGRITY ORTHOPAEDICS INC

A tissue stapling clip and method of stapling tissue

The application discloses a tissue suture clamp, which comprises a first clamp arm with a head end and a tail end, a second clamp arm with a head end and a tail end, the tail end of the second clamp arm being rotationally connected with the tail end of the first clamp arm, the first clamp arm and the second clamp arm being capable of moving away from each other to make the tissue suture clamp in an open state, or being capable of moving towards each other to make the tissue suture clamp in a closed state, a suture line, one end of the suture line being fixedly connected with a part of the first clamp arm away from the second clamp arm, and a first anti-slip part arranged on the outer surface of the part of the suture line not connected with the first clamp arm, the first anti-slip part being capable of preventing the tissue on the opposite side from slipping off the suture line to make the tissue on the opposite side move towards the tissue on one side in the process that the suture line moves towards the tissue on the opposite side. The application can realize the suture of a super-large wound and the suture after a perforation. The application further provides a suture method of tissue.
Owner:SHANGHAI NINTH PEOPLES HOSPITAL SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Full-suture meniscus suture fixing assembly

The utility model provides a full-suture meniscus suture fixing assembly. The full-suture meniscus suture fixing assembly comprises a first fixing piece, a second fixing piece and a suture line. The first fixing piece is provided with two first threading holes which are formed in a spaced mode, and one sides of the two first threading holes are provided with containing grooves. Two threading holes II which are arranged at an interval are formed in the fixing piece II; a clamping piece is fixed at one end of the suture line; the suture line passes through one threading hole I, so that the clamping piece is clamped at the line inlet end of one threading hole I and is accommodated in the accommodating groove; the other end of the suture line sequentially penetrates through the other first threading hole and the two second threading holes to connect the first fixing piece and the second fixing piece together. The full-suture meniscus suture fixing assembly is safe and reliable, can prevent the suture line from falling off, and is high in firmness and stability.
Owner:TIANJIN LIYUAN MEDICAL TECH CO LTD

Degradable drug-loaded suture line as well as preparation method and application thereof

PendingCN120860286ASuture equipmentsCoatingsActive agentAbsorbable suture
The invention relates to the field of absorbable suture lines, in particular to a degradable drug-loaded suture line and a preparation method and application thereof. The invention provides a degradable drug-loaded suture which is composed of a dispersed phase and a continuous phase, and a uniform wrapping layer is formed on the surface of the dispersed phase by using the continuous phase; the dispersion phase comprises a degradable polymer, an organic solvent and a loaded drug; the continuous phase comprises a surfactant and an alcohol solution. The degradable drug-loaded suture line prepared by the invention is used for preparing products for suturing skin and deep tissue after adenomyosis surgery, has good biocompatibility, can avoid suture removal, stably releases drugs at the sutured part, and reduces side effects caused by repeated medication.
Owner:ANHUI PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL

Suture measuring devices and methods

PCT designated stageWO2025259924A1Suture equipmentsSurgical needlesSurgical operationTherapeutic Endoscopic Surgery
Suture systems, devices, and methods to enhance the precision and efficiency of surgical procedures are disclosed herein. Exemplary sutures are integrated with length indicators along their length, providing surgeons with an immediate visual reference for measuring anatomical distances intra-operatively in open and key hole (e.g. arthroscopic and endoscopic) procedures, tissue dimensions, gauging suture tension, and determining the optimal or desired suture length required for closure. The length indicators, marked at predetermined intervals, allow for accurate measurement without the need for additional tools, thereby streamlining the surgical process and reducing operation time. This suture material is particularly beneficial in complex surgeries where precision is paramount, and can improve patient outcomes by enabling more accurate tissue approximation and wound closure. Exemplary embodiments enable a combination of functionality and convenience, providing a valuable addition to the medical field, particularly in surgical specialties that demand meticulous attention to detail.
Owner:COR MEDICAL VENTURES INC

Suture anchor and related method

A method and apparatus for securing soft tissue to bone can include loading a suture through an eyelet of a suture anchor. The suture anchor can have a longitudinal axis and a distal tip. An anchor inserter assembly can be positioned in contact with the suture anchor. The anchor inserter assembly can include a sleeve portion and an impacting portion. The suture can be engaged with a suture engaging member on the suture inserter assembly at a location adjacent to the eyelet. The sleeve portion can be translated relative to the impacting portion from an alignment position to an insertion position thereby moving the suture a first distance offset from the eyelet in a direction away from the distal tip. The anchor insert assembly can be advanced to a driven position thereby advancing the suture anchor into the bone. The suture engaging member can be released from the suture.
Owner:BIOMET SPORTS MEDICINE LLC

Biplane stamping suture line and preparation method thereof

The invention provides a double-plane stamping suture line and a preparation method thereof, and relates to the field of surgery and medical cosmetology, the preparation method of the double-plane stamping suture line comprises the following steps: S1, a suture line matrix is subjected to hot pressing on at least two planes through a hot pressing unit, and corresponding hot pressing shaping sections are formed; and S2, synchronously stamping the hot-pressing shaping sections on the at least two planes to form corresponding barb belts. According to the double-plane stamping suture line and the preparation method thereof, the suture line base body is subjected to hot pressing and stamping machining on the at least two planes, the suture line with a multidirectional barb structure can be efficiently prepared, the prepared suture line has excellent tissue grasping force and anchoring stability, and the suture line has the advantages of being simple in structure, convenient to operate and high in practicability. And the slippage or displacement phenomenon in the sewing process is effectively prevented.
Owner:胡晓春

Multi-parameter visual online detection method and equipment suitable for barb suture line

The invention belongs to the technical field of on-line detection, and belongs to a multi-parameter visual on-line detection method and equipment suitable for barb suture lines, and the method comprises the following steps: formulating suture line detection parameters, and analyzing according to material reflective characteristics and morphological characteristics to obtain parameter adjustment data. And according to the parameter adjustment data, adjusting the suture line detection parameters to obtain target detection parameters, collecting multi-view image data of the current barb suture line, and processing the multi-view image data by using a multi-view detection method to obtain multi-dimensional detection data. And judging whether the multi-dimensional detection data meets a preset threshold value or not according to the target detection parameter, if so, outputting a qualification judgment result, and otherwise, marking a defect position type. Analyzing the association relationship between the defect position type and the suture line detection parameter to obtain defect detection association correction data, and adjusting the target detection parameter to obtain an accurate detection parameter; the detection device can meet the detection requirements of barb suture lines of multiple materials and multiple specifications, the equipment investment cost is reduced, and the detection precision and stability are improved.
Owner:HANGZHOU AIPU MEDICAL DEVICES CO LTD