US 11,730,585 B2
Tissue repair device and method
Roy Gigi, Tel-Aviv (IL); Mickey Scheinowitz, Kfar Saba (IL); Noaa Reisman, Tel-Aviv (IL); Itzhak Mallayev, Tel-Aviv (IL); Roman Ziv, Tel-Aviv (IL); and Sivan Goldin, Tel-Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd., Tel-Aviv (IL); and The Medical Research, Infrastructure, and Health Services Fund of the Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv (IL)
Appl. No. 16/325,707
Filed by The Medical Research, Infrastructure, and Health Services Fund of the Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv (IL); and Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
PCT Filed Nov. 15, 2017, PCT No. PCT/IL2017/051241
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 14, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/092129, PCT Pub. Date May 24, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/422,172, filed on Nov. 15, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2020/0121315 A1, Apr. 23, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 17/11 (2006.01); A61F 2/08 (2006.01); A61B 17/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/0811 (2013.01) [A61B 17/0401 (2013.01); A61B 17/0487 (2013.01); A61B 17/1146 (2013.01); A61B 17/0469 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0488 (2013.01)] 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A repair device for a torn tissue, comprising:
a) a tissue attachment unit comprising a tissue attachment element comprising an attachment head configured for securing said repair device to said torn tissue;
b) a clamp holding said tissue attachment unit, comprising the following separate elements: (i) a base configured to act as a positioning platform; (ii) side walls configured to secure the torn tissue in place and determine the attachment area; and (iii) a setter configured to hold the tissue attachment element; and
(c) a binder and/or an anchor,
wherein:
said tissue attachment unit is configured to remain on the torn tissue while said clamp is configured to be removed after attachment of the tissue attachment unit to the torn tissue; and
said tissue attachment element is configured to be secured to only one side of the torn tissue.