US 11,998,186 B2
Devices and methods for tissue repair
Ali Hosseini, Quincy, MA (US); Christopher David MacCready, Medfield, MA (US); Kendra O'Malley, Charlton, MA (US); Geoffrey Ian Karasic, Milton, MA (US); Zenan Qi, Attleboro, MA (US); Benjamin Michael Hall, Roslindale, MA (US); Chun Liu, Brookline, MA (US); Paul McGovern, Hanson, MA (US); and Han Teik Yeoh, Albany, MA (US)
Assigned to Smith & Nephew, Inc., Memphis, TN (US); Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Memphis, TN (US); and Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited, Memphis, TN (US)
Appl. No. 18/556,790
Filed by Smith & Nephew, Inc., Memphis, TN (US); Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Zug (CH); and Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited, Singapore (SG)
PCT Filed Apr. 26, 2022, PCT No. PCT/US2022/026320
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 23, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/232126, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 3, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/179,654, filed on Apr. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/278,644, filed on Nov. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0081808 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0401 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/0404 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0414 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cortical button configured to be passed through a bone tunnel in an elongate orientation before being flipped to a deployed configuration, the cortical button comprising:
an oblong body, having a length greater than a width, and a longitudinal axis;
the width extending from a first sidewall to a second sidewall of the body, the first and second sidewalls along the longitudinal axis between a first and a second end, the body also having a lower surface configured to engage an external bone surface when the cortical button is in the deployed configuration; and
a pair of slotted apertures extending through an entire thickness of the body and also extending through the first or second sidewall of the body, defining slotted aperture lateral openings, the slotted aperture lateral openings configured to receive a loop of a flexible strand therethrough;
a pair of enclosed apertures, adjacent the pair of slotted apertures; and
a rib extending from the oblong body lower surface and disposed between both the pair of slotted apertures and the pair of enclosed apertures, the rib coextensive along the longitudinal axis with both the pair of slotted and enclosed apertures.