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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:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2011
Applicant:
Hugh S. West, Jr., Sandy, UT (US);
Inventor:
Hugh S. West, Jr., Sandy, UT (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/86 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/0401 (2013.01); A61B 17/863 (2013.01); A61B 2017/044 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0414 (2013.01);
Abstract
Bone anchors for attaching soft tissue to bone include an anchor body having a bore that opens at a proximal end and a suture attachment site in communication with the bore for slidably receiving a suture thereon. In one embodiment, three suture attachment sites are provided by two transverse pins placed within the bore. The bone anchors can be fully threaded and, in one embodiment, can have fine and coarse threads for engaging cortical and cancellous bone tissue, respectively.