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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2020
Tack Surgical, Llc, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Charles P. Chalekson, Templeton, CA (US);
David G. Matsuura, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Philip J. Simpson, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Nelson Siu, Encinitas, CA (US);
Tack Surgical, LLC, Solona Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes a suture adapted to be anchored into tissue, the suture comprising a length of an elongate flexible suture material and a plurality of barbed anchor articles slidingly disposed along a length of the suture material. The invention also includes a suture placement device designed to insert the anchors of the suture articles into opposing tissue surfaces and associated methods for approximating and/or affixing opposed tissue surfaces in surgical procedures and the like.