US 12,220,121 B2
Suture transfer device
Leonard Gordon, San Francisco, CA (US); and Joshua Gordon, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Leonard Gordon, San Francisco, CA (US); and Joshua Gordon, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 26, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/454,017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/763,646, filed on Jun. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0388086 A1, Dec. 26, 2019
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/17 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0482 (2013.01) [A61B 17/0469 (2013.01); A61B 17/0467 (2013.01); A61B 17/1796 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A suture transfer device for passing a connection element through a channel drilled through a bone, comprising:
a drill bit, said drill bit having a drill stem and a bone cutting head that produces a bore in bone, and
a suture transfer device having a semi-cylindrical portion having a first end and a second end, an inner surface and an exterior convex surface, and
said inner surface being sized to define a trough within the semi-cylindrical portion, and
said inner surface being sized to accept said drill bit seated within the semi-cylindrical portion
said exterior convex surface sized to match the bore produced by the bone cutting head of the drill bit, and
said suture transfer device having an overall length greater than the length of the channel drilled through a bone, and
said inner surface providing a passageway for a connection element when the device is within the channel drilled through a bone, and
a collar on said first end of the device, said collar having a central bore, and
said collar further defines an open slot from the central bore to the outer perimeter of the collar, and
said second end of the device defining an insertion end, and
said second end adapted to seat against the bone cutting head of the drill bit, and
a suture, said suture being sized to be able to be passed through the suture transfer device at least twice.