Patent ID: 9636209
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F,A61L,D01F,D03D,D04C,D10B,F04C

Claim:
1. A medical ribbon, comprising: a woven ribbon body of a plurality of warp yarns and at least one weft yarn, the yarns each comprising continuous lengths of elongate collagen fibers, wherein the ribbon body has a length dimension with opposing first and second end portions spaced apart in the length dimension and connected by transversely spaced apart first and second long sides defining a width dimension; and at least one suture woven into the ribbon body and oriented to extend in a linear orientation along the length dimension of the ribbon body, wherein the at least one suture extends a length beyond both the first and second end portions of the ribbon body, wherein the at least one suture is held in a straight linear orientation and under only the at least one weft yarn so that the at least one suture is visible on only a first primary surface of the ribbon body, wherein the at least one weft yarn terminates at the first and second end portions of the ribbon body, and wherein the at least one suture is spaced laterally inward from an outer edge of the first and second long sides of the ribbon body and extends out from the ribbon body while other adjacent warp yarns closer to the first and second long sides of the ribbon body terminate at the first and second end portions of the ribbon body.