Patent ID: 11937810
Assignee: VESTECK, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 11:
12. A suture, comprising:
a bridging element;
a set of legs having proximal ends coupled to the bridging element and elongated bodies that extend away from the bridging element and terminate in sharpened tips, the sharpened tips configured to penetrate through a portion of a graft and a vessel wall;
a tail having a distal end coupled to the bridging element and an elongate body that extends away from the bridging element and terminates in a wider structure,
the suture configured to transition from a flattened configuration in which the elongate body of the tail extends in a direction opposite to the direction of the elongate bodies of the set of legs to a curved configuration in which the tail and the set of legs are curved, the suture in the curved configuration being configured to form an annular loop with at least the wider structure of the tail being configured to be disposed within an outer perimeter of the annular loop when the suture is in the curved configuration,
the set of legs and the wider structure of the tail configured to exert forces in opposite directions when the suture is in the curved configuration such that the set of legs and the wider structure of the tail are configured to hold the portion of the graft and the vessel wall relative to one another.