Patents by Inventor Sara Saul

Sara Saul 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).

  • Transcatheter heart valve prosthesis systems and methods for rotational alignment
    Patent number: 11969343
    Abstract: Methods for rotationally aligning transcatheter heart valve prosthesis within a native heart valve include percutaneously delivering the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis to the native heart valve, wherein the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis includes at least one imaging marker, receiving a cusp overlap viewing angle image and/or a coronary overlap viewing angle image of the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis within the native heart valve, determining, based on the cusp overlap viewing angle image and/or the coronary overlap viewing angle image and the at least one imaging marker, whether the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis is in a desired rotational orientation, if the at least one imaging marker in the cusp overlap viewing angle image and/or the coronary overlap viewing angle indicates that the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis is not in the desired rotational orientation, rotating the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis until the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis is in the desired rot
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Harewood, Taylor Winters, Evelyn Birmingham, Sara Saul, Victor Kimball, Eric Pierce, Radhika Bhargav, Jeffrey Sandstrom, Caitlin Dorff
  • TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROTATIONAL ALIGNMENT
    Publication number: 20220175524
    Abstract: Methods for rotationally aligning transcatheter heart valve prosthesis within a native heart valve include percutaneously delivering the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis to the native heart valve, wherein the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis includes at least one imaging marker, receiving a cusp overlap viewing angle image and/or a coronary overlap viewing angle image of the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis within the native heart valve, determining, based on the cusp overlap viewing angle image and/or the coronary overlap viewing angle image and the at least one imaging marker, whether the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis is in a desired rotational orientation, if the at least one imaging marker in the cusp overlap viewing angle image and/or the coronary overlap viewing angle indicates that the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis is not in the desired rotational orientation, rotating the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis until the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis is in the desired rot
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Frank Harewood, Taylor Winters, Evelyn Birmingham, Sara Saul, Victor Kimball, Eric Pierce, Radhika Bhargava, Jeffrey Sandstrom, Caitlin Dorff