US 12,251,301 B2
Eyelet interference screw and methods of use
Aaron Smith, Marietta, GA (US); Chase Thornburg, Cumming, GA (US); and Jantzen Cole, Woodstock, GA (US)
Assigned to International Life Sciences, LLC, Marietta, GA (US)
Filed by International Life Sciences, LLC, Marietta, GA (US)
Filed on Jan. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/571,051.
Application 17/571,051 is a continuation of application No. 16/701,845, filed on Dec. 3, 2019, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/774,453, filed on Dec. 3, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0125573 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/08 (2006.01); A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61F 2/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/0811 (2013.01) [A61B 17/0401 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0414 (2013.01); A61B 2017/044 (2013.01); A61F 2002/0081 (2013.01); A61F 2002/0829 (2013.01); A61F 2002/0852 (2013.01); A61F 2002/0888 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of attaching a tissue repair implant to a bone using a threaded interference device, the method comprising:
(a) creating a blind hole in the bone;
(b) using a driver, driving the interference device and the tissue repair implant into the blind hole such that a first end of the interference device is inserted into the blind hole, wherein:
(i) the tissue repair implant comprises a mesh strip, the mesh strip joined to at least one suture; and
(ii) the mesh strip is coupled to the first end of the interference device;
(c) using the driver, continue driving the interference device and the mesh strip further into the blind hole such that a threaded portion of the interference device is driven into the blind hole while at the same time the first end of the interference device and the mesh strip are driven further into the blind hole, wherein after driving the interference device and the mesh strip into the blind hole, the mesh strip extends out of the blind hole; and
(d) securing a free end of the mesh strip that extends out of the blind hole to a second threaded interference device and driving the second threaded interference device and the free end of the mesh strip into a second blind hole.