US 11,832,806 B2
Near bone suture button
Joshua P. Federspiel, Portland, OR (US); Gretchen Hinton, Hillsboro, OR (US); Steven Morgan, Greenwood Village, CO (US); Selene Parekh, Durham, NC (US); Alastair Younger, Vancouver (CA); and Steve Crawford, Carlton, OR (US)
Assigned to Acumed LLC, Hillsboro, OR (US)
Filed by Acumed LLC, Hillsboro, OR (US)
Filed on Sep. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/016,807.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/898,836, filed on Sep. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0068809 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/68 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0401 (2013.01) [A61B 17/683 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00367 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0404 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01); A61B 2017/681 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A suture button for aiding in fixation of two bones, the suture button comprising:
a head having a rounded top surface, a flat bottom surface, and a first opening extending through the head from the rounded top surface to the flat bottom surface; and
a pulley peg elongated from a first end to a second end, the first and second ends each connected to the flat bottom surface of the head so as to form a second opening between the pulley peg and the bottom surface of the head, wherein at least a portion of an inner portion of the head that forms the first opening continues directly into the pulley peg, such that the inner portion of the head that forms the first opening lies on a same plane as an inner portion of the pulley peg.