US 12,137,899 B2
Multiple suture placement system
Christopher P. Godek, Sea Girt, NJ (US); Michael V. Chobotov, Carlsbad, CA (US); and Daniel Holton, Evanston, IL (US)
Assigned to Cypris Medical, Inc., Chicago, IL (US)
Filed by Cypris Medical, Inc., Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on May 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/315,119.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/022,632, filed on May 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0346010 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0483 (2013.01) [A61B 17/0482 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a plurality of thread lappets each having an attached thread;
a suturing probe including a thread capture chamber having a plurality of thread lappet receivers each configured to retain one of said plurality of thread lappets with said attached thread, said thread capture chamber opening into a recessed external surface delimiting an open area of said suturing probe;
a substrate capture chamber having a chamber side wall extending from a chamber bottom to a chamber port defining a transition edge delimiting a substrate capture chamber entry in said recessed external surface of said suturing probe;
a plurality of slender rods each slidably disposed in said suturing probe, said plurality of slender rods extendable through said open area into a corresponding one of plurality of thread lappet receivers of said thread capture chamber,
said plurality of slender rods comprise a first slender rod and a second slender rod, said first slender rod carrying a first thread lappet having a first thread extending to an unattached thread end, said second slender rod carrying a second thread lappet having a second thread extending to an unattached thread end, said first and second slender rods configured to carry said first and second thread lappets through a substrate captured by said substrate capture chamber to dispose said first thread and said second thread in spaced apart relation in said substrate,
wherein a first end of said first thread is configured to be knotted with a second end of said second thread and a second end of the first thread can be knotted with a first end of said second thread to form one thread loop having a crossed portion of said thread loop disposed on said substrate,
wherein first ends of said first and second threads are configured to be knotted and the second ends of said first and second thread are configured to be knotted to form one thread loop having portions of the thread loop disposed in generally parallel spaced apart relation on said substrate.