Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tissue suturing device using rotating needles
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Application No.: US14630330Application Date: 2015-02-24
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Publication No.: US09949735B2Publication Date: 2018-04-24
- Inventor: Jafar Syed Hasan , Wai Ngai Chin , Gary Michael Kobylewski
- Applicant: Surgimatix, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US IL Elk Grove Village
- Assignee: Surgimatix, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Surgimatix, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Elk Grove Village
- Agency: Miller, Matthias & Hull LLP
- Main IPC: A61B17/04
- IPC: A61B17/04 ; A61B17/06 ; A61B17/29

Abstract:
A medical device for installing sutures to close an incision in tissue or human skin is disclosed. The suturing device may provide first and second arcuate needles. Once properly positioned, the first and second arcuate needles are driven through the sub-dermal layer, or alternatively through a superficial surface, of two sections of skin to be joined. This is done in arcuate fashion and at identical and symmetrical rates of angular displacement. In so doing, the sections of skin are pushed toward one another thus assuring horizontal and vertical alignment of the two sections of skin. During the driving or retraction process of the first and second arcuate needles, a suture is positioned within both the first and second sections of skin and transformed from a planar or a multi-planar serpentine orientation to a helical orientation. The resulting suturing process is thus much faster than conventional or manual suturing and results in superior wound approximation/alignment that will lead to decreased scarring compared to prior art devices.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150201927A1 Tissue Suturing Device Using Rotating Needles Public/Granted day:2015-07-23
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