Patent ID: 9192369
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A surgical anchor comprising a plurality of plates configured into a stack with successive plates within the stack being vertically arrayed with respect to the stack; the stack having an undeployed configuration, and a deployed configuration in which one or more of the plates is positioned outwardly more laterally with respect to the stack than in the undeployed configuration; a biasing member between the plates in the stack biasing the one or more plates toward the deployed configuration; the stack having a first maximum lateral dimension in its deployed configuration which exceeds a second maximum lateral dimension in its undeployed configuration; retention openings through adjacent plates in the stack, the respective retention openings aligned with one another when the stack is in the undeployed configuration; and an elongated deployment member positioned through the aligned retention openings, the stack being retained by the deployment member in the undeployed configuration against the bias, the deployment member being removable from the anchor to reconfigure the anchor to the deployed configuration.