US 12,433,579 B2
Trocar site closure clip
Scott D. Cambron, Louisville, KY (US); Daniel S. Metzinger, Louisville, KY (US); Robert S. Keynton, Goshen, KY (US); Hares A. Patel, Elizabethtown, KY (US); and Dakota J. Waldecker, Louisville, KY (US)
Assigned to University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc., Louisville, KY (US)
Filed by University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc., Louisville, KY (US)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/638,861.
Application 18/638,861 is a division of application No. 17/059,354, granted, now 11,986,176, previously published as PCT/US2019/036524, filed on Jun. 11, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/683,298, filed on Jun. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0260955 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0057 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/00004 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00584 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00637 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00654 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00668 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A trocar site closure clip, comprising:
a central body including an apex and a base opposite the apex;
a pair of opposing arms extending from the base; and
an elongated support positioned between the arms and extending from the base;
wherein each arm includes an inner side oriented toward the support and an outer side opposite the inner side; and
wherein each arm includes a series of knurls on the outer side of that arm, each knurl extending substantially perpendicular to the support.