Patent ID: 9241705
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. A bone anchor delivery system device comprises: a handle; an elongated drive shaft fixed to the handle, the drive shaft having a hollow stem extending from the handle to a leading end, the leading end having a tip portion, the tip portion having a pair of openings for receiving sutures and at least one flat surface extending along the tip portion lengthwise to rotationally fix a bone anchor to the drive shaft; a bone anchor having a hollow end opening for attachment on said tip portion, the bone anchor having a first pair of suture openings, the first pair of suture openings being within a thread channel formed by two adjacent threads, the openings of the first pair being within 90 degrees of the other and extending into the hollow end opening; a suture threaded and looped through the first pair of suture openings, the suture extending from the bone anchor through one of the openings of the tip portion internally through the hollow stem; and wherein the bone anchor has a second pair of openings for receiving a second suture, the second pair being within the thread channel formed by two adjacent threads being similarly spaced relative to the first pair, but on opposite sides of the bone anchor, and the second suture threaded through the second pair of openings and similarly extending from the bone anchor through the opposite opening of the tip portion internally through the hollow stem, wherein only a loop portion of each of the sutures is exposed externally in the thread channel, the exposed loop portion extending 90 degrees or less circumferentially externally around the channel from which the suture is held to the bone anchor.