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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2022
Method and apparatus for creating a seam-like anatomical low creep attachment of soft tissue to bone
Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc., Orono, MN (US);
Patrick M. Connor, Charlotte, NC (US);
Howard W. Harris, Southlake, TX (US);
Marc Labbé, Spring, TX (US);
Thomas A. Westling, Orono, MN (US);
Zak Zenz-Olson, Ham Lake, MN (US);
Nathaniel Van Tran, Lakeville, MN (US);
David M. Crompton, St. Paul, MN (US);
Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc., Maple Plain, MN (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for creating a seam like array of suture stitches joined in series by sequential anchors in bone. The anchors are transtendon implants positioned through the tendon in the original tendon footprint and each array includes four or more anchors. The seam like array extends across at least a portion of the tendon. The stitches can extend generally perpendicular to the direction of the tendon orientation. In rotator cuff repair, the anchors are positioned in the original footprints of the infraspinatus and/or supraspinatus tendons and the seam like array extends in an anterior to posterior direction across the particular tendons torn and repaired. The entire array of anchors can be positioned in the medial half of the original footprints.