US 12,064,573 B2
Sutureless adhesion system
Chris Salvino, Scottsdale, AZ (US); Keir Hart, Lafayette, CO (US); and Mark J. Huseman, Broomfield, CO (US)
Assigned to SharpMed, LLC., Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Filed by Chris Salvino, Scottsdale, AZ (US); Keir Hart, Lafayette, CO (US); and Mark J. Huseman, Broomfield, CO (US)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/708,950.
Application 17/708,950 is a continuation of application No. 16/682,239, filed on Nov. 13, 2019, granted, now 11,400,258.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/760,720, filed on Nov. 13, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0218954 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61M 25/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 25/02 (2013.01) [A61M 2025/0246 (2013.01); A61M 2025/0266 (2013.01); A61M 2210/101 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sutureless adhesion system comprising:
a flexible skin adhering substrate defined by a skin adhering substrate bottom surface, a top substrate surface and a substrate periphery, the substrate periphery comprising a substrate incision framing notch at a substrate butting edge, the substrate incision framing notch sized to accommodate a tube diameter defined by a tube, the substrate incision framing notch defined by a substrate notch length and a substrate notch width greater than the tube diameter, the substrate incision framing notch configured to frame an incision in human skin through which the tube is adapted to penetrate;
an intermediate flexible non-skin contacting membrane defined by a bottom membrane surface, a top membrane surface and a membrane periphery, the bottom membrane surface configured to only cover a portion of the flexible substrate and the tube when in the incision;
a flexible cover sheet defined by a bottom sheet surface, a top sheet surface and a sheet periphery, the bottom sheet surface adapted to cover at least a portion of the top substrate surface and at least a portion of the top membrane surface;
adhesive covering at least a portion of the bottom substrate surface, the bottom membrane surface, and the bottom sheet surface, the flexible substrate adapted to adhere to human skin.