US 12,295,563 B2
Button for anchoring of multiple sutures
Giovanni Francesco Solitro, Shreveport, LA (US); and Patrick Massey, Shreveport, LA (US)
Filed by Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA (US)
Filed on Oct. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/067,630.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/913,130, filed on Oct. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0106321 A1, Apr. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61F 2/08 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0401 (2013.01) [A61F 2/0811 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0404 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0414 (2013.01); A61F 2002/0852 (2013.01); A61F 2002/0882 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A surgical suture button system comprising:
a first and a second bridge portion comprising a respective first and a second top surface, the first and the second top surfaces sharing a first central axis, the first central axis defining a first suture course; and
a medial link member integral to the first and the second bridge portions, wherein the medial link member comprises a medial suture channel disposed below the first and the second top surfaces of the first and the second bridge portions; and
wherein the medial suture channel is disposed below and is substantially perpendicular to the first suture course.