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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2010
Rui Avelar, Vancouver, CA;
Alexei Goraltchouk, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Robert A. Herrmann, Vancouver, CA;
Brian H. Luscombe, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
William L. D'agostino, Hamden, CT (US);
Rui Avelar, Vancouver, CA;
Alexei Goraltchouk, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Robert A. Herrmann, Vancouver, CA;
Brian H. Luscombe, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
William L. D'Agostino, Hamden, CT (US);
Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ (US);
Abstract
A marked heterofunctional suture thread has two or more sections having different features. One or more sections of the suture thread are provided with laser-marked and non-laser marked indicia in order that they may be identified and differentiated from other sections. The suture thread may have retainers on the surface of one or more sections such that the suture thread can engage and retain tissue without knots. The markers may be used to indicate fixed features of a section of suture thread such as the presence and/orientation of retainers. In particular embodiments, laser-marked and non-laser marked indicia are used to identify the transition section of a bidirectional self-retaining suture.