US 12,440,202 B2
Knotless bone anchor system and method
Christopher M. Palese, Warsaw, IN (US); and Nathan A. Winslow, Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Assigned to Biomet Manufacturing, LLC, Warsaw, IN (US)
Filed by Biomet Manufacturing, LLC, Warsaw, IN (US)
Filed on Feb. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/113,998.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/313,565, filed on Feb. 24, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0320717 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/86 (2006.01); A61F 2/08 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0401 (2013.01) [A61B 17/864 (2013.01); A61F 2/0811 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0445 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0458 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0464 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0475 (2013.01); A61F 2002/0817 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of soft tissue repair, the method comprising:
attaching at least one suture to a soft tissue to be affixed to a bone structure;
positioning a tissue anchor on a driver;
positioning a cinching suture alongside the driver;
engaging a catch of the cinching suture with a stop of the driver;
capturing the at least one suture attached to the soft tissue in a loop of the cinching suture positioned proximate a distal tip of the driver;
drawing the at least one suture toward the distal tip of the driver by pulling at least a first portion of the cinching suture;
preventing the cinching suture from passing by the driver by engaging the catch with the stop; and
installing the tissue anchor into the bone structure to secure the at least one suture in the bone structure by interference-friction fixation between the tissue anchor and the bone structure.