US 11,986,176 B2
Trocar site closure clip
Scott D. Cambron, Louisville, KY (US); Daniel S. Metzinger, Louisville, KY (US); Robert S. Keynton, Goshen, KY (US); Hares A. Patel, Elizabethtown, KY (US); and Dakota J. Waldecker, Louisville, KY (US)
Assigned to University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc., Louisville, KY (US)
Appl. No. 17/059,354
Filed by University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc., Louisville, KY (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 11, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/036524
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 27, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/241229, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/683,298, filed on Jun. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0212673 A1, Jul. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0057 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/00004 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00584 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00637 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00654 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00668 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of at least partially closing a trocar site, comprising:
providing a trocar site closure clip including:
a triangular central body including an apex and a base opposite the apex,
a pair of opposing arms extending from the base,
an elongated support positioned between the arms and extending from the base,
wherein each arm includes an inner side oriented toward the support and an outer side opposite the inner side, and
wherein each arm includes a series of knurls on the outer side of that arm;
inserting the clip into a cavity in a tissue by passing the clip through a trocar extending through the tissue;
withdrawing the trocar from the tissue, leaving a trocar site in the tissue;
partially retracting the clip into the trocar site, the clip thereby engaging the tissue and at least partially blocking the trocar site; and
leaving at least a portion of the clip within the trocar site.