Patent ID: 11890003
Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  Y | IPC A

Claim 11:
12. A medical device comprising:
a surgical needle;
an elongated mesh suture having a first end attached to the surgical needle and a second end located away from the first end, the elongated mesh suture including a porous flat strip including a plurality of fibers defining a mesh wall extending between the first end and the second end, and a plurality of pores extending through the porous flat strip, wherein each of the pores has a pore size in a microporous size range of 200 microns to 4 millimeters, and wherein the pores are adapted to facilitate tissue integration through the porous flat strip when the elongated mesh suture is configured to introduce into a body; and
an intervening segment disposed between the first end of the elongated mesh suture and the surgical needle to attach the first end of the elongated mesh suture to the surgical needle.