Gyrus Acmi, Inc.

Ilia Timonin

Clifton A Alferness

Adam Lee Smith

David R Seward

Blake R Stancik

Donald Charles Baumgarten

David Andrew Desmarais

Gina M Muia-Longman

Amanda Kay Woodcock

Thomas Hall Ruscher

Chenhao Fu

Paul T Hinrichs

Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for driving a needle to facilitate suturing, such as may be performed in a surgical anastomosis procedure. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes a frame. First and second rollers are rotatably mounted parallel with each other in the frame and are configured to engage therebetween a shaft of a needle formed in a helical shape. The first and second rollers are configured to counter-rotate. The needle is revolvable eccentrically around the first roller responsive to counter-rotation of the first and second rollers. A drive mechanism is secured to the frame and is configured to move the frame.

Suturing apparatus and method

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Ilia Timonin