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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2016
The Foundry, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Darin C. Gittings, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mark Deem, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Hendricksen, Redwood City, CA (US);
Vivek Shenoy, Redwood City, CA (US);
Hanson S. Gifford, III, Woodside, CA (US);
Stephen Boyd, Murrieta, CA (US);
The Foundry, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A knotless suture anchoring system includes an outer anchor having a central channel and a distal tip adapted to penetrate tissue. An inner anchor is positionable in the central channel of the outer anchor and a locking feature on one or both of the inner and outer anchors retains the inner anchor within the central channel. A continuous length of suture is coupled with the inner and outer suture anchors and has a free end. At least one of the inner and the outer anchors also has a cinching mechanism that allows the suture to be tensioned by passage of the suture through the cinching mechanism in a first direction while movement of the suture through the cinching mechanism in a second direction opposite the first direction is constrained.