Inventor

CICHOCKI JR FRANK RICHARD

US25 patents

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CICHOCKI JR FRANK RICHARD

ETHICON INC

Fluid emitting suture needle

Bent suture needle

Systems, devices and methods for dispensing and curing silicone based topical skin adhesives

Foldable suture needle

Bendable suture needle

Folded suture needle

Barbed microcatheter with spaced round openings

Methods of making and implanting barbed microcatheters having fluid egress openings for infusing therapeutic fluids

Apparatus and method for batch spray coating of surgical needles

Apparatus and method for batch spray coating of surgical needles

Rapid thermal treatment for enhancing bending stiffness and yield moment of curved needles

Rapid thermal treatment for coloring surgical needles

Catheters having visible markers for identifying soaker regions containing fluid openings

Composite suture needles having elastically deformable sections

Methods of making suture needles with localized regions for bending

Suture needles having bendable regions

Barbed microcatheter with spaced elongated slits

Systems, devices and methods of making highly elastic suture needles for minimally invasive surgery

Systems, devices and methods for securing sutures to surgical needles made of superelastic materials

Programmable motor driven swaging presses for attaching surgical needles to sutures

Swaging systems for attaching surgical needles to sutures and testing attachment strengths

Swaging systems for attaching surgical needles to sutures having on-press testing of suture attachment strength

Rapid thermal treatment for enhancing bending stiffness and yield moment of curved needles

CICHOCKI JR FRANK RICHARD

Active suture for the delivery of therapeutic fluids

Rapid thermal treatment for coloring surgical needles