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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2017
Applicant:
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc., Raynham, MA (US);
Inventor:
Robert Frigg, Langendorf, CH;
Assignee:
DePuy Synthes Product, Inc., Raynham, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/0401 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00862 (2013.01); A61B 2017/042 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0403 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0411 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0414 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device is for anchoring a suture to a bone. The device includes a suture engaged with an elastically deformable ring biased toward an unstressed state in which an outer diameter of the ring is D. The ring is compressible for insertion through a hole in a bone stabilization device having a diameter smaller than the diameter D.