US 11,730,465 B2
Self-adjusting suture construct
Nathan A. Winslow, Warsaw, IN (US); Derek J. Harper, Scottsdale, AZ (US); and Kevin N. Baird, Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Assigned to Biomet Manufacturing, LLC, Warsaw, IN (US)
Appl. No. 16/769,516
Filed by Biomet Manufacturing, LLC, Warsaw, IN (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 16, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/061418
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 3, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/118127, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 20, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/597,487, filed on Dec. 12, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0383680 A1, Dec. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0401 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/0412 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0414 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
passing an active end of a suture around a portion of a patient's anatomy, wherein, along a first length of the suture, the active end is positioned away from a first loop formed with the suture, wherein forming the first loop comprises threading the active end of the suture through an aperture in the suture;
advancing, after said passing, the active end of the suture through the first loop to form a second loop;
coupling, after forming the second loop, a suture anchor to the first length of the suture by moving the active end of the suture through the suture anchor; and
pulling the active end of the suture to tighten the second loop around the portion of the patient's anatomy.