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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2020
Smith & Nephew, Inc., Memphis, TN (US);
Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics Ag, Zug, CH;
Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited, Singapore, SG;
Geoffrey Ian Karasic, Raynham, MA (US);
Ali Hosseini, Quincy, MA (US);
Christopher David MacCready, Medfield, MA (US);
Chun Liu, Brookline, MA (US);
James Hunt, Hanover, MA (US);
Matthew Edwin Koski, Westford, MA (US);
Paul McGovern, Hanson, MA (US);
Jacob Peabody, Londonderry, NH (US);
Smith & Nephew, Inc., Memphis, TN (US);
Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Zug, CH;
Smith & Nepew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited, Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A harvesting assembly for harvesting a tissue graft from surrounding tissue is disclosed including a guide. The guide includes a means for fixedly engaging with an anterior surface of the tendon. The guide also includes a means of guiding a cutting blade along a preferred trajectory into and along a length of the tendon. The guide also includes a means of guiding a truncating blade along a preferred trajectory across a width of tendon. The cutting blade may include two parallel blades for forming lateral sides of the tendon graft simultaneously. Each of the two parallel blades may define a leading edge that extends along at least a 90 degree arc that is equidistant from a stop on the cutting blade. The stop in combination with the guide may limit a cut depth into the tendon for a range of cutting blade handle elevation angles.