Patent ID: 8740938

Claim:
A system for maintaining apposition in a suture, the system comprising: a deployment device, the deployment device having a housing and an actuator assembly; and a suture-fastening device, the suture-fastening device having a looped body, the looped body having a first looped portion having a first apex and a second central apex disposed in a central portion of the looped body, the central portion of the looped body having an overlapping configuration at the second central apex with one portion of the looped body transversely crossing another portion of the looped body, the first apex and the second central apex being separated by a first distance while the suture-fastening device is in a pre-deployed state and being configured to resiliently move to a deployed state in which the first apex and the second central apex are separated by a second distance, the first distance being greater than the second distance, wherein the deployment device is configured to move the suture-fastening device from the deployed state to the pre-deployed state to thread the suture through the suture-fastening device and then deploy the suture-fastening device which returns to the deployed state to maintain apposition in the suture.