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Publication Number
US-12702406-B2
Publication Date
2026-08-11
Expiration Date
Abstract
An organization device for maintaining a suspensory graft fixation device (i.e., an implant and suture) in a desired position. The device includes a substrate having top and bottom edges with first and second panels extending therebetween. The device also includes a first central longitudinal axis extending in a direction from the top edge to the bottom edge between the first and second panels. The first and second panels are foldable about the axis between open and closed positions. The device also includes an opening extending through the bottom edge and into the first panel, and a plurality of top slits and bottom slits. The plurality of top slits includes at least one top slit which is aligned with the first opening. The device additionally includes a tabs adjacent the opening. The slits and tabs are configured to maintain suture of a suspensory graft fixation device in an organized manner.
Core Innovation
The invention describes an organization device for securing a suspensory graft fixation device in an organized configuration. The organization device includes a foldable substrate with a top edge and a bottom edge, first and second panels extending therebetween, and a central longitudinal axis. The substrate includes a first opening extending through the bottom edge and into the first panel, with tabs on the first panel adjacent sides of the opening and one or more intermediary tabs in the first panel between the opening and the top edge.
The suspensory graft fixation device includes an anchor body with a suture woven therethrough, forming a loop extending from a side of the anchor body and two limbs extending from an opposing side of the anchor body. The organization device receives the fixation device such that the loop is wrapped around the first tab and the second tab with a bottom of the loop extending across the first opening. The two limbs are then pulled to and through a central top slit.
The invention further organizes the sutures by wrapping the two limbs from the central top slit to and through one of a plurality of top slits extending into the top edge of the first panel and one of a plurality of bottom slits extending into the bottom edge of the first panel. Foldable embodiments include folding the substrate along the central longitudinal axis to rotate the second panel toward the first panel, including implementations where a protrusion of the second panel is extended into a slit to rotate the second panel. Additional structural features include cutouts forming a protrusion and a retainer band on the second panel, where the retainer band is formed from a pair of parallel slits.
Claims Coverage
Independent claim clm-00001 covers securing a suspensory graft fixation device in an organized configuration using a foldable substrate geometry with tabs, an opening, and central, top, and bottom slits, in combination with wrapping and routing a suture loop and two suture limbs through those structures. Dependent claims refine the fold and engagement and add specific structural elements for protrusion and a retainer band.
Organization device with tabs, opening, and slit routing for a suspensory graft fixation device
Providing an organization device comprising a substrate having a top edge and a bottom edge with a first panel and a second panel extending therebetween, a central longitudinal axis, a first opening extending through the bottom edge and into the first panel, a first tab on the first panel adjacent a first side of the first opening, a second tab on the first panel adjacent a second side of the first opening, and one or more intermediary tabs in the first panel between the opening and the top edge;
Suspensory graft fixation device having an anchor body with a suture loop and two limbs
Providing a suspensory graft fixation device having an anchor body with a suture woven therethrough, creating a loop extending from a side of the anchor body and two limbs extending from an opposing side of the anchor body;
Loop wrapped across the opening using first and second tabs
Wrapping the loop around the first tab and the second tab such that a bottom of the loop extends across the first opening;
Central top slit routing of the two limbs
Pulling the two limbs to and through the central top slit;
Top and bottom slits for organizing the two limbs into an organized configuration
Wrapping the two limbs from the central top slit to and through one of a plurality of top slits extending into the top edge of the first panel, and one of a plurality of bottom slits extending into the bottom edge of the first panel.
Foldable substrate rotation of the second panel toward the first panel
Folding the substrate along the central longitudinal axis so that the second panel rotates toward the first panel.
Protrusion-to-slit engagement during folding
Extending the protrusion of the second panel into a slit of the first panel during folding rotates the second panel toward the first panel.
Spaced cutouts forming a protrusion and a through slit in the panels
The organization device has a spaced pair of cutouts in the side of the second panel forming a protrusion, and a slit in the first panel extending between the top edge and the bottom edge.
Retainer band on the second panel
The organization device includes a retainer band on the second panel.
Retainer band formed from a pair of parallel slits
The retainer band is formed from a pair of parallel slits in the second panel.
The claimed subject matter organizes a suspensory graft fixation device by wrapping a suture loop around tabs adjacent an opening, routing two suture limbs through a central top slit and then through selected top and bottom slits in a first panel, and optionally folding the substrate so the second panel rotates toward the first panel with protrusion and slit engagement, while maintaining a retainer band structure formed by parallel slits.
Stated Advantages
Maintains suspensory graft fixation sutures in a desired, non-entangled configuration.
Maintains an open-to-closed folded configuration that encloses suture tails.
Prevents contamination during storage.
Documented Applications
Storing an organized suspensory graft fixation device while enclosing suture tails and preventing contamination during storage.
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