BERNARD H COHEN, MD
Osteopathic Medicine at Ponce De Leon Blvd, Miami, FL

2005022, Oct 20, 2005

Apr 13, 2005

11/105241

Bernard Cohen - Miami FL, US

A61B005/103

033512000

A flexible measuring tape is extended from a predetermined location on a face a predetermined distance to a location on a scalp. A 2 cm by 2 cm square bundle of hair about that location is isolated. The bundle of isolated hair is captured in a slit in a two-part cartridge, one part being slidable in the other part about a changeable length slit 1 mm wide. The cartridge is placed in an “L” shaped end of a plunger extending from a first end of a body of a measuring device. The plunger is drawn into the body of the device to compress the hair in the changeable length slit as the two parts of the cartridge are pushed together between an end of the “L” and the first end of the body. A spring is provided on the plunger between a second end of the body of the device and an inner end of a knob at an outer end of the plunger. The spring applies the same load regardless of the bundle's size and urges the “L” shaped end toward the body to compress the bundle of hair and the amount of compressed hair is read off of a gauge as DDI, Density-Diameter Index, which represents the cross-sectional area of the compressed bundle of hair. After the measurement is made, the smaller part is pulled part way out of the larger part of the cartridge so the cartridge easily can be pulled off of the bundle of hair and discarded.

6993851, Feb 7, 2006

Apr 16, 2004

10/826943

Bernard H. Cohen - Miami FL, US

Bernard Cohen Technology, LLC - Miami FL

A61B 1/00

33512, 33784

The method for isolating an area of hair-bearing skin and measuring a combined cross section of hair in the area comprising the steps of: preparing a pre-measured site on the scalp; isolating a standardized bundle of uncut hair at the site; compressing the bundle of hair with a measurable load while simultaneously measuring the height of the bundle of hair with a piston and cylinder device. One embodiment of the device comprises a body having a slot for receiving a bundle of hair, an anvil positioned adjacent said slot, and a mechanism for causing relative movement between the body having the slot and the anvil thereby to compress a bundle of uncut hair received in the slot against the anvil.

5127412, Jul 7, 1992

Apr 3, 1991

7/680250

Bernard H. Cohen - Miami FL

A61B 1704

128898

The skin tension set includes an anchor member having a body portion and a plurality of suture guides along its sidewalls and bottom coupled by a single suture loop to the anchor is a winder. The winder has a body portion with suture guides at the bottom not unlike the anchor portion. In addition, however, the winder includes a central reel with suture anchoring guides, a ratchet at one end, and a drive preferably with the form of a detachable knurled knob at the other. According to the method of the present invention, the wound is sutured with preferably a monofilament suture by passing the suture through one suture guide in the winder reel and then through and out the bottom of the winder bottom across the wound, through the skin on the opposite side of the wound, looped through the anchor and similarly back to the winder and knotted. Thereafter, in accordance with the method of the present invention, the winder is ratcheted by the surgeon to apply tension through the single loop of suture material in parallel fashion across the wound, thus stretching the skin and/or closing the wound. When tensioning is performed before the actual surgery, it would be for the purpose of stretching the skin in anticipation of subsequent surgery.