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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2012
Applicant:
Venturemd Innovations, Llc, North Logan, UT (US);
Inventors:
James Murphy, Newton Square, PA (US);
Kwan-Ho Chan, Singapore, SG;
T. Wade Fallin, Hyde Park, UT (US);
Patrick Michel White, West Chester, PA (US);
Assignee:
VentureMD Innovations, LLC, Logan, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/06 (2006.01); A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61F 2/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/0482 (2013.01); A61B 17/0469 (2013.01); A61B 17/0485 (2013.01); A61F 2/0805 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques and instruments for surgical transosseous attachment to a bone include a guide able to guide the formation of intersecting bone tunnels and a retriever able to retrieve a suture through the bone tunnels.