US 11,684,355 B2
Suture anchor
Kwan-Ho Chan, Singapore (SG); James Murphy, Newton Square, PA (US); T. Wade Fallin, Hyde Park, UT (US); and Patrick M. White, West Chester, PA (US)
Assigned to CROSSROADS EXTREMITY SYSTEMS, LLC, Memphis, TN (US)
Filed by Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC, Memphis, TN (US)
Filed on Feb. 1, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/265,823.
Application 16/265,823 is a continuation of application No. 14/822,761, filed on Aug. 10, 2015, granted, now 10,194,898.
Application 14/822,761 is a continuation of application No. 13/674,825, filed on Nov. 12, 2012, granted, now 9,131,937, issued on Sep. 15, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/597,138, filed on Feb. 9, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/560,694, filed on Nov. 16, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2019/0167250 A1, Jun. 6, 2019
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0401 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/044 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0412 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0414 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0441 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0445 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0451 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0459 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A suture anchor comprising:
an elongated body having a proximal portion and a distal portion, the elongated body comprising:
bone engagement features that extend outward and are shaped to aid in retaining the body in a bone tunnel;
a longitudinal passageway extending from the proximal portion toward the distal portion and defining a longitudinal passageway axis;
a first transverse suture receiving passageway extending through the elongated body along a transverse axis and intersecting the longitudinal passageway;
a second transverse suture receiving passageway extending through the elongated body generally parallel to and offset from the first suture receiving passageway and intersecting the longitudinal passageway, the first and second transverse suture receiving passageways being spaced apart along the longitudinal passageway relative to one another;
third and fourth transverse suture receiving passageways, each extending through the elongated body and intersecting the longitudinal passageway, the first and third transverse suture receiving passageways forming a distal pair of passageways offset relative to one another toward opposite sides of the longitudinal passageway axis, the second and fourth transverse suture receiving passageways forming a proximal pair of passageways offset relative to one another toward opposite sides of the longitudinal passageway axis; and
a plunger receivable in the longitudinal passageway in axial sliding relationship, with a suture routed around the plunger, the plunger having a proximal end and a distal end, the plunger being positionable within the longitudinal passageway with the plunger distal end overlapping each of the transverse suture receiving passageways.