Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process of changing cross sectional shape within a textile
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Application No.: US16254414Application Date: 2019-01-22
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Publication No.: US11458669B2Publication Date: 2022-10-04
- Inventor: Robert A. Kiefer , Nathan Spangenberg , Stephanie Burke , Matthew Oltman , Thomas R. Molz
- Applicant: ATEX Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NC Pinebuff
- Assignee: ATEX Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: ATEX Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Pinebuff
- Agency: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
- Main IPC: B29C55/30
- IPC: B29C55/30 ; D06M10/00 ; A61L17/14 ; A61B17/06 ; D04C1/06 ; D01D5/20 ; A61B17/00

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices for changing cross-sectional sizes and/or shapes of flat braided sutures and the resulting constructs are disclosed. The flat braided sutures can have a textile first cross-sectional shape that can be changed to a textile second cross-sectional shape. The systems can have a heater and a die. The flat braided sutures can be movable through the heater and the die. When the flat braided sutures are in the heater, the flat braided sutures can be heatable from a textile first temperature to a textile second temperature greater than the textile first temperature. When the flat braided sutures are at the textile second temperature, the textile first cross-sectional shape can be changeable to the textile second cross-sectional shape.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190168441A1 PROCESS OF CHANGING CROSS SECTIONAL SHAPE WITHIN A TEXTILE Public/Granted day:2019-06-06
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