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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2023
Riverpoint Medical, Llc, Portland, OR (US);
Elliot Bixby, Milwaukie, OR (US);
Nathan Cook, Portland, OR (US);
Riverpoint Medical, LLC, Portland, OR (US);
Abstract
The embodiments disclosed herein are breakaway suture constructs containing releasable locking connections and/or methods of assembly that allow a plurality of sutures, and/or suture ends to be attached or connected together along a portion of their length to form a spliced region that unifies the sutures or suture ends and prevent movement of a suture end relative to other suture end. The releasable connections allow the surgeon to easily manipulate the spliced suture ends with little or no force to result in the unified ends of the sutures to be separated without requiring cutting or severing of the individual sutures or the releasable locking connections.