US 12,290,430 B2
Time dependent physiologic tissue scaffold
Michael Scott Taylor, Anderson, SC (US); Seth Dylan McCullen, Greenville, SC (US); Kenneth W. Clinkscales, Easley, SC (US); and Georgios T. Hilas, Bloomington, IN (US)
Assigned to Poly-Med, Inc., Anderson, SC (US)
Filed by Poly-Med, Inc., Anderson, SC (US)
Filed on Nov. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/518,658.
Application 17/518,658 is a continuation of application No. 15/768,463, granted, now 11,197,749, previously published as PCT/US2016/060682, filed on Nov. 4, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/250,568, filed on Nov. 4, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0054249 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/00 (2006.01); D04B 21/12 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/0063 (2013.01) [D04B 21/12 (2013.01); A61F 2002/0068 (2013.01); A61F 2240/001 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0031 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0067 (2013.01); D10B 2401/12 (2013.01); D10B 2509/08 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mesh material comprising:
a plurality of bioabsorbable fibers and a plurality of slowly bioresorbable fibers;
wherein each of the plurality of bioabsorbable fibers is a monofilament or a multifilament consisting of bioabsorbable monofilaments;
wherein the plurality of bioabsorbable fibers and the plurality of slowly bioresorbable fibers are combined to form an absorbable mesh, the absorbable mesh having an X-direction and a perpendicular Y-direction;
wherein the absorbable mesh comprises pores formed by the plurality of slowly bioresorbable fibers, and the plurality of bioabsorbable fibers are interwoven around and reinforce the pores, thereby forming a reinforcing pattern, and the pores are characterized as having an average diameter;
wherein the reinforcing pattern consists of the plurality of bioabsorbable fibers;
wherein the average diameter of the pores changes by less than 5% after removal of the plurality of bioabsorbable fibers; and
wherein the mesh material is anisotropic.