US 11,806,005 B2
Devices and methods for anchoring tissue
Daniel J. Triplett, Providence, UT (US); and T. Wade Fallin, Hyde Park, UT (US)
Assigned to Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC, Memphis, TN (US)
Filed by Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC, Memphis, TN (US)
Filed on May 11, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/871,454.
Application 16/871,454 is a continuation of application No. 15/357,197, filed on Nov. 21, 2016, granted, now 10,653,409.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/263,250, filed on Dec. 4, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2020/0281581 A1, Sep. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61F 2/08 (2006.01); A61B 17/16 (2006.01); A61B 17/06 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0401 (2013.01) [A61B 17/1682 (2013.01); A61F 2/0805 (2013.01); A61F 2/0811 (2013.01); A61B 17/06128 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00367 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0404 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0417 (2013.01); A61B 2090/034 (2016.02); A61B 2090/062 (2016.02); A61F 2002/0852 (2013.01); A61F 2002/0882 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A suture anchor assembly comprising:
a base member having a proximal end and a distal end, the base member comprising a distally-facing surface;
a delivery tube extending from the distal end of the base member, the delivery tube having a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal passage;
a suture anchor positioned in the delivery tube, the suture anchor defining a body that has a first side and a second side opposite the first side, and the suture anchor further comprising first and second through holes that extend through the body from the first side to the second side and are disposed on opposite sides of a midline of the body that is equidistantly disposed between first and second ends of the suture anchor that each extend from the first side to the second side; and
a button actuatable distally toward the base member via pressure from a thumb of a hand, with one or more fingers of the hand pressing proximally against the distally-facing surface, to urge the suture anchor to move distally relative to the delivery tube,
wherein the suture anchor is responsive to tension in a portion of a suture that extends from the base member through the first hole, which causes the suture anchor to pivot to a deployed orientation nonparallel to the delivery tube.