Prindeze N, Profant C, Snow T, Mobbs, K, Mukherjee I, Renton, D Product history The first patent for barbed suture was issued in 1964 and featured unidirectional “roughened” suture material in differing patterns.1 It was originally intended to be part of an automatic suturing device previously patented in 1961, however this was ultimately never comercialized.2 […]