Patent ID: 8652173
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. An anchoring device for use in surgical installation of an implant, wherein the implant is to be connected to the anchoring device by a suture, comprising: an anchoring component having a barrel portion and a pointed segment coupled to the barrel portion, wherein the pointed segment is configured to be embedded in tissue, wherein the barrel portion and the pointed segment are aligned in an uncrimped state of the anchoring device and have suture passages therethrough, and wherein the barrel portion and the pointed segment are coupled to one another at a juncture at which the barrel portion is bendable laterally out of alignment with the pointed segment; a crimping structure on one of the barrel portion and the pointed segment, configured to bear against the other of the barrel portion and the pointed segment when the barrel portion is bent over laterally out of alignment with the pointed segment, thereby crimping a suture strand passing through the suture passages and between the barrel portion and the pointed segment; wherein tightening the suture strand by pulling the suture strand through the anchoring device in a first direction to a tension sufficient to bend over the barrel portion, causes the crimping structure to fix the suture strand to the anchoring device.