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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2016
Applicants:
T.a.g. Medical Devices—agriculture Cooperative Ltd., Kibbutz Gaaton, IL;
Alex Levin, Kiryat Yam, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
T.A.G. Medical Devices—Agriculture Cooperative Ltd., Kibbutz Gaaton, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/06 (2006.01); A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/06004 (2013.01); A61B 17/0469 (2013.01); A61B 17/0482 (2013.01); A61B 17/0483 (2013.01); A61B 17/06109 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00349 (2013.01); A61B 2017/06009 (2013.01); A61B 2017/06042 (2013.01);
Abstract
A suture capturing device configured to attain multiple preset orientations, comprising: a handle; a hollow shaft coupled to said handle; a rigid needle element configured with a hook for catching a suture and where the needle element is operatively coupled to the hollow shaft opposite the handle and configured to be slidable in a first direction to assume an open orientation where the hook is exposed relative to the hollow shaft and in a second direction to assume a closed orientation where the hook is not exposed relative to the hollow shaft.