US 11,812,955 B2
Fixation device delivery system and methods
Ronan Keating, Dublin (IE); Diarmuid Conroy, Dublin (IE); and Gerard Rabbitte, Dublin (IE)
Assigned to SHARP FLUIDICS, LLC, Hayward, CA (US)
Filed by SHARP FLUIDICS, LLC, Hayward, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/301,790.
Application 17/301,790 is a division of application No. 16/070,255, granted, now 11,006,952, previously published as PCT/EP2017/050703, filed on Jan. 13, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/278,139, filed on Jan. 13, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0298747 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/068 (2006.01); A61B 17/06 (2006.01); A61B 17/064 (2006.01); A61B 17/32 (2006.01); A61F 2/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/068 (2013.01) [A61B 17/06 (2013.01); A61B 17/064 (2013.01); A61B 17/32 (2013.01); A61F 2/0063 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00004 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0648 (2013.01); A61B 2017/320044 (2013.01); A61F 2002/0072 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0004 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0016 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mesh fixation system comprising a tack and a delivery instrument, wherein the tack comprises:
a body section having a distal section and a proximal section, a helical threaded element extending outwardly from the body section and at least partially extending longitudinally from the distal section towards the proximal section and engagement elements configured to operably engage and interact with the delivery instrument, wherein the proximal section defines a lumen for receipt of at least a portion of the delivery instrument, the body section further defining a mouth to the lumen that extends along a longitudinal axis of the body section and which, on removal of the at least a portion of the delivery instrument from the lumen defines a barb.