	US 12,213,660 B2
	Suture anchor driver
Giuseppe Lombardo, New Port Richey, FL (US); Grady Breslich, St. Petersburg, FL (US); Matthew C. Summitt, Palm Harbor, FL (US); Gregory A. Alfonso, Seffner, FL (US); and Robert A. Thibodeau, St. Petersburg, FL (US)
Assigned to Conmed Corporation, Utica, NY (US)
Appl. No. 16/982,352
Filed by Conmed Corporation, Utica, NY (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 19, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/056635 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 18, 2020, PCT Pub. No. WO2019/182645, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/648,034, filed on Mar. 26, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/646,954, filed on Mar. 23, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/647,255, filed on Mar. 23, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0007731 A1, Jan. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01)

CPC A61B 17/0401 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0462 (2013.01)]

15 Claims

1. A suture anchor driver, comprising:

a handle having a proximal end and a distal end;

a recess in the handle with a shaft extending centrally therefrom;

a detent ring with a central aperture, the detent ring having one or more projections;

a spool with a central aperture, the spool rotatable between a first configuration and a second configuration, the spool having a first side and a second side, the second side having a plurality of protrusions extending therefrom;

wherein the shaft extends through the central aperture in the detent ring and the central aperture of the spool such that the one or more projections of the detent ring are adjacent the plurality of protrusions extending from the spool, and wherein the shaft further comprises a pronged end; and

wherein in the first configuration, one of the one or more projections of the detent ring extends between two of the plurality of protrusions of the spool and in the second configuration, one of the one or more projections of the detent ring is aligned with one of the plurality of protrusions of the spool.