US 12,082,804 B2
Suturing system
Richard Keith Taylor, Fall City, WA (US); Amanda Kay Woodcock, Seattle, WA (US); and Adam David Hensel, Gahanna, OH (US)
Assigned to Cypris Medical, Inc., Chicago, IL (US)
Filed by Cypris Medical, Inc., Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on Aug. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/405,842.
Application 17/405,842 is a continuation of application No. 16/734,121, filed on Jan. 3, 2020, granted, now 11,103,236.
Application 16/734,121 is a continuation of application No. 15/947,612, filed on Apr. 6, 2018, granted, now 10,660,637, issued on May 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0369267 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/06 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0485 (2013.01) [A61B 17/06066 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00349 (2013.01); A61B 17/0469 (2013.01); A61B 17/06166 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of making a suturing probe comprising:
recessing an external surface of said suturing probe to form a recessed external surface;
delimiting an open area with said recessed external surface;
opening into said open area a thread capture chamber;
opening into said open area a substrate capture chamber;
forming a chamber port having a continuous transition edge;
delimiting an entry into the substrate capture chamber with said continuous transition edge of said chamber port;
opening said chamber port to said suturing probe recessed external surface;
circumscribing a first area with said transition edge;
delimiting an entry to said open area at a peripheral margin of said open area;
circumscribing a second area with said peripheral margin, said first circumscribed area less than said second circumscribed area; and
slidingly engaging a thread carrier to said suturing probe, said thread carrier engaged to pass outside said substrate capture chamber into said thread capture chamber.