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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dennis McDevitt, Upton, MA (US);
Jeffrey Halbrecht, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Caspari, Maidens, VA (US);
Assignee:
Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/704 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/704 ;
Abstract
A tissue anchor having a length of filament held so that an applied force greater than a threshold force will cause the filament to move longitudinally, while an applied force less than the threshold force will not move the filament, and methods of attaching soft tissue to bone using such an anchor.
Published as:
CA2378974A1; WO0110312A1; AU6630600A; EP1202672A1; US6527794B1; US2003130695A1; JP2003528648A; US6660023B2; EP1202672B1; AU771296B2; DE60008882D1; US2005090862A1; US2005149122A1; US7081126B2; CA2378974C; US2009099598A1; JP4290365B2; DE60008882T2; US9510816B2;
McDevitt, Dennis. (2003). Self-locking suture anchor (U.S. Patent No. 6527794). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6527794
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