US 12,257,162 B2
Soft tissue repair system
Jody L. Seifert, Birdsboro, PA (US); David C. Paul, Phoenixville, PA (US); Sean Suh, Milltown, NJ (US); Colm Mclaughlin, Glenside, PA (US); Marcin Niemiec, Norristown, PA (US); Aditya Ingalhalikar, Pune (IN); Daniel Davenport, Collegeville, PA (US); Jamie Carroll, Drexel Hill, PA (US); Chad Glerum, Pennsburg, PA (US); Edward Dwyer, Lehighton, PA (US); Noah Hansell, King of Prussia, PA (US); Mark Weiman, Downingtown, PA (US); Douglas Cahill, Lititz, PA (US); Adam Friedrich, Cinnaminson, NJ (US); Michelle Kofron, Kunkletown, PA (US); Vipin Kunjachan, Norristown, PA (US); Ed Reilley, Boyertown, PA (US); Damien O'Halloran, Conshohocken, PA (US); William S. Rhoda, Media, PA (US); and Brian Malm, Arlington, VA (US)
Assigned to Globus Medical, Inc., Audubon, PA (US)
Filed by GLOBUS MEDICAL, INC., Audubon, PA (US)
Filed on Nov. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/524,366.
Application 15/912,795 is a division of application No. 13/105,153, filed on May 11, 2011, granted, now 9,943,297, issued on Apr. 17, 2018.
Application 17/524,366 is a continuation of application No. 15/912,795, filed on Mar. 6, 2018, granted, now 11,191,652.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/345,485, filed on May 17, 2010.
Prior Publication US 2022/0062007 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/44 (2006.01); A61F 2/46 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/4611 (2013.01) [A61F 2/4601 (2013.01); A61F 2/4614 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30448 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30583 (2013.01); A61F 2/441 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0085 (2013.01); A61F 2220/005 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00023 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A soft tissue repair system comprising:
a plug including:
a cap having a recess and a hole in the recess;
a screw extending through the hole in the cap, the screw comprising a head located in the recess and threads on a distal end opposite the head;
a spreading bar having two ends and a threaded opening disposed between the two ends, the screw threads engaged in the threaded opening; and
a pair of opposing arms, each arm extending from the cap and in contact with an end of the spreading bar, wherein a thickness of each arm, as measured from an outer surface configured to engage with a patient annulus to an inner surface opposite the outer surface, is constant along a length of each arm extending from the cap to an opposing free end;
wherein rotation of the screw draws the spreading bar toward the cap and pushes the arms apart.