Patents by Inventor Todd Wilcox

Todd Wilcox has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5895375
    Abstract: A surgical site chemical dispensing system for dispensing a liquid chemical agent, such as an antibiotic, anesthetic, growth factor, hormone, anti-neoplastic agent, or the like, directly onto a site of a surgical procedure. The system includes at least one bladder formed from a pair of thin sections of a flexible material to have an internal cavity that connects to an open tube wherethrough the liquid chemical agent is passed, under pressure, into the bladder. The liquid chemical agent passes, as a low volume flow, through at least one hole formed through a bladder section of material and onto the surgical procedure site. The invention includes a fixation device that includes at least one hollow pin for passing a volume of the liquid chemical agent therethrough directly into or onto a bone proximate to a fracture therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: MedicineLodge, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Wilcox, E. Marlowe Goble, Alan Chervitz
  • Patent number: 5891101
    Abstract: A surgical site chemical dispensing system for dispensing a liquid chemical agent, such as an antibiotic, anesthetic, growth factor, hormone, anti-neoplastic agent, or the like, directly onto a site of a surgical procedure. The system includes at least one bladder formed from a pair of thin sections of a flexible material to have an internal cavity that connects to an open tube wherethrough the liquid chemical agent is passed, under pressure, into the bladder. The liquid chemical agent passes, as a low volume flow, through at least one hole formed through a bladder section of material and onto the surgical procedure site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: MedicineLodge, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Wilcox, E. Marlowe Goble, Alan Chervitz
  • Patent number: 5681289
    Abstract: A chemical dispensing system for dispensing a liquid chemical agent, such as an antibiotic, anesthetic, growth factor, hormone, anti=neoplastic agent, or the like, onto or into a site of a surgical procedure. The system includes at least one bladder having an internal cavity that connects to an open tube wherethrough the liquid chemical agent is passed, under pressure, into the bladder. The liquid chemical agent passes, as a low volume flow, through at least one hole formed through a bladder wall and onto the surgical procedure site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: MedicineLodge Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Wilcox, E. Marlowe Goble, Alan Chervitz