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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2012
Biomet Sports Medicine, Llc, Warsaw, IN (US);
Kevin T. Stone, Winona Lake, IN (US);
Nathan M. Sautter, North Manchester, IN (US);
Brian K. Berelsman, Warsaw, IN (US);
Jeffery D. Arnett, Gilbert, AZ (US);
Joshua A. Butters, Chandler, AZ (US);
Dylan M. Hushka, Chandler, AZ (US);
Nicholas R. Slater, Chandler, AZ (US);
Biomet Sports Medicine, LLC., Warsaw, IN (US);
Abstract
A soft tissue repair device can include a housing having a handle, a deployment system having an actuation member, and an insertion system having an inserter and a slider. The slider can be coupled to the actuation member and movable relative to the inserter between deployed and retracted positions. First and second anchors can be carried on an external surface of the slider such that the anchors are spaced apart and portions of the anchors are coaxial with the slider and each other. A flexible strand can couple the anchors. The insertion system can cooperate with the deployment system to move the slider to the deployed position to deploy the first anchor upon activating the actuation member a first time, and to move the slider to the deployed position from the retracted position to deploy the second anchor upon actuating the actuation member a second time after the first time.