Patent ID: 9693772
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A surgical buttress for use in a surgical stapling apparatus, the surgical buttress comprising: an elongate rectangular body portion defining a width, the body portion including a distal portion having a width linearly tapering in a distal direction between opposed linear distal edges to a distal end of the body portion; a neck portion integrally formed with and extending from the distal end of the body portion, the neck portion defining a width; a head portion integrally formed with and connected to a distal end of the neck portion, the head portion defining a width; and a tail portion integrally formed with and extending from a proximal end of the body portion, the tail portion defining a width, wherein the width of the tail portion is less than the width of the body portion, and the surgical buttress is formed from a material having filaments.