US 12,232,722 B2
Coined suture passing drill
Matthew Summitt, Palm Harbor, FL (US); and Robert A. Thibodeau, Saint Petersburg, FL (US)
Assigned to Conmed Corporation, Utica, NY (US)
Appl. No. 17/052,998
Filed by Conmed Corporation, Utica, NY (US)
PCT Filed May 7, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/030995
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 4, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/217345, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 14, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/668,900, filed on May 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0068815 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/16 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0485 (2013.01) [A61B 17/0401 (2013.01); A61B 17/1615 (2013.01); A61B 17/1631 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0404 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0496 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A suture passing drill, comprising:
a proximal end and a distal end with an elongated shaft extending therebetween, the elongated shaft having a first portion and a second portion with a first diameter and a first shape;
a wire loop extending from the proximal end of the elongated shaft;
a drill tip at the distal end of the elongated shaft;
a narrow portion on the elongated shaft having a second diameter and a second shape, and extending between the first portion and the second portion of the elongated shaft, wherein the first portion extends with the first diameter proximally from the narrow portion to a most proximal end of the elongated shaft and includes the first diameter and the first shape, the narrow portion being positioned closer to the distal end than to the proximal end; and
wherein the second diameter is smaller than the first diameter, and the first shape is different than the second shape.