US 12,402,875 B1
Apparatus and method of tying tissue to bone
Elliot Bixby, Gladstone, OR (US); Edwin Anderson, Ridgefield, WA (US); Nathan Daniel Cook, Portland, OR (US); and John Thomas Ferguson, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to Riverpoint Medical, LLC, Portland, OR (US)
Filed by RIVERPOINT MEDICAL, LLC, Portland, OR (US)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/377,574.
Application 18/377,574 is a continuation of application No. 17/387,854, filed on Jul. 28, 2021, granted, now 11,839,367.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/057,711, filed on Jul. 28, 2020.
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/06 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0401 (2013.01) [A61B 17/0469 (2013.01); A61B 17/0485 (2013.01); A61B 17/06166 (2013.01); A61F 2/30749 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0414 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0445 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30751 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of attaching target tissue to a pilot hole in a bone, comprising:
providing a suture assembly, comprising:
i. a flexible suture anchor sleeve,
ii. a sliding suture, having a first end and a second end, and engaging with said flexible suture anchor sleeve; and
iii. a shuttle having a shuttle loop and a free end, said free end opposed to said shuttle loop, a portion of said shuttle engaging with said flexible suture anchor sleeve, said free end and said shuttle loop extending outside of said flexible suture anchor sleeve;
pushing said flexible suture anchor sleeve into said pilot hole;
passing a first end of said sliding suture around said target tissue and engaging said first end to said shuttle loop to create a cinchable loop;
pulling on said free end of said shuttle to pull said shuttle loop and a portion of said first end of sliding suture into said flexible suture anchor sleeve; and
retaining a least a portion of said shuttle loop within said flexible suture anchor sleeve to wedge said portion of said shuttle loop and a portion of said first end of said sliding suture within said flexible suture anchor sleeve, wherein said suture assembly holds said target tissue to bone.