US 12,390,333 B2
Suture hole geometry and methods for attaching tissue to orthopedic implants
Joel Mayerson, Columbus, OH (US)
Assigned to ONKOS SURGICAL, INC., Parsippany, NJ (US)
Filed by Onkos Surgical, Inc., Parsippany, NJ (US)
Filed on Nov. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/531,717.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/116,601, filed on Nov. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0160510 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/30 (2006.01); A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61F 2/36 (2006.01); A61F 2/38 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/30771 (2013.01) [A61B 17/0401 (2013.01); A61F 2/3607 (2013.01); A61F 2/389 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0414 (2013.01); A61F 2002/3006 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30784 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30827 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An implant comprising:
a superior end;
an inferior end opposite the superior end;
a longitudinal axis extending between the superior and inferior ends;
a first side extending between the superior and inferior ends, the first side being a lateral a second side opposite the first side and extending between the superior and inferior ends, the second side being a medial side, the implant being a proximal femur implant;
an anterior surface extending between the superior and inferior ends;
a posterior surface opposite the anterior surface and extending between the superior and inferior ends;
a first suture hole between the superior and inferior ends;
a second suture hole proximate the superior end, the first suture hole being between the second suture hole and the inferior end; and
a first suture bore formed between the first and second suture holes, and extending between the first and second suture holes, and extending at a first acute angle with the longitudinal axis in a sagittal plane, and extending at a second acute angle with the longitudinal axis in a coronal plane;
a third suture hole proximate the superior end and the second suture hole;
a fourth suture hole between the third suture hole and the inferior end, the first suture hole being formed in the posterior surface between the superior and inferior ends, the second and third suture holes being formed in the first side proximate the superior end, and the fourth suture hole being formed in the anterior surface between the superior and inferior ends; and
a second suture bore formed between the third and fourth suture holes, and extending between the third and fourth suture holes, and extending at the first acute angle with the longitudinal axisin a sagittal plane, and extending at the second acute angle with the longitudinal axis in a coronal plane, the first suture bore and second suture bore converging in a direction toward the superior end.