Patents by Inventor Christopher J. T. Villongco

Christopher J. T. Villongco 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: 11974853
    Abstract: Systems are provided for generating data representing electromagnetic states of a heart for medical, scientific, research, and/or engineering purposes. The systems generate the data based on source configurations such as dimensions of, and scar or fibrosis or pro-arrhythmic substrate location within, a heart and a computational model of the electromagnetic output of the heart. The systems may dynamically generate the source configurations to provide representative source configurations that may be found in a population. For each source configuration of the electromagnetic source, the systems run a simulation of the functioning of the heart to generate modeled electromagnetic output (e.g., an electromagnetic mesh for each simulation step with a voltage at each point of the electromagnetic mesh) for that source configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Vektor Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher J. T. Villongco
  • Patent number: 11896432
    Abstract: A system is provided for augmenting a three-dimensional (3D) model of a heart to indicate the tissue state. The system accesses a 3D model of a heart, accesses two-dimensional (2D) images of tissue state slices of the heart, and accesses source location information of an arrhythmia. The system augments the 3D model with an indication of a source location based on the source location information. For each of a plurality of the tissue state slices of the heart, the system augments a 3D model slice of the 3D model that corresponds to that tissue state slice with an indication of the tissue state of the heart represented by the tissue state information of that tissue state slice. The system then displays a representation of the 3D model that indicates the source location of the arrhythmia and the tissue state of the heart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher J. T. Villongco, Adam R. Geronemus, Robert Joseph Krummen
  • Publication number: 20230380809
    Abstract: A system is provided for augmenting a three-dimensional (3D) model of a heart to indicate the tissue state. The system accesses a 3D model of a heart, accesses two-dimensional (2D) images of tissue state slices of the heart, and accesses source location information of an arrhythmia. The system augments the 3D model with an indication of a source location based on the source location information. For each of a plurality of the tissue state slices of the heart, the system augments a 3D model slice of the 3D model that corresponds to that tissue state slice with an indication of the tissue state of the heart represented by the tissue state information of that tissue state slice. The system then displays a representation of the 3D model that indicates the source location of the arrhythmia and the tissue state of the heart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher J. T. Villongco, Adam R. Geronemus, Robert Joseph Krummen
  • Publication number: 20230388520
    Abstract: A system for generating an encoding of a lead of electrocardiogram (ECG) represented as an ECG image. The system identifies a reference pulse of the ECG image having a reference width pixel count, a reference height pixel count, a reference time, and a reference voltage. The system identifies a baseline pixel-row of a plotline of the ECG image that contains a graph of the lead. The system encodes per-pixel timing information based on the reference time and the reference width pixel count. The system, for a plurality of pixel-columns, identifies a voltage pixel-row of that pixel-column that has an ECG value of the graph and encodes a voltage based on distance between the baseline pixel-row and the voltage pixel-row and based on the reference voltage and the reference height pixel count.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Krummen, Christopher J. T. Villongco, Alexander Michael Monko
  • Publication number: 20230129648
    Abstract: A system is provided for displaying heart graphic information relating to sources and source locations of a heart disorder to assist in evaluation of the heart disorder. A heart graphic display system provides an intra-cardiogram similarity (“ICS”) graphic and a source location (“SL”) graphic. The ICS graphic includes a grid with the x-axis and y-axis representing patient cycles of a patient cardiogram with the intersections of the patient cycle identifiers indicating similarity between the patient cycles. The SL graphic provides a representation of a heart with source locations indicated. The source locations are identified based on similarity of a patient cycle to library cycles of a library cardiogram of a library of cardiograms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher J. T. Villongco
  • Publication number: 20230038493
    Abstract: A system is provided for augmenting a three-dimensional (3D) model of a heart to indicate the tissue state. The system accesses a 3D model of a heart, accesses two-dimensional (2D) images of tissue state slices of the heart, and accesses source location information of an arrhythmia. The system augments the 3D model with an indication of a source location based on the source location information. For each of a plurality of the tissue state slices of the heart, the system augments a 3D model slice of the 3D model that corresponds to that tissue state slice with an indication of the tissue state of the heart represented by the tissue state information of that tissue state slice. The system then displays a representation of the 3D model that indicates the source location of the arrhythmia and the tissue state of the heart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher J. T. Villongco, Adam R. Geronemus, Robert Joseph Krummen
  • Patent number: 11534224
    Abstract: A method is provided for treating a patient with an arrhythmia. In some embodiments, the method collects a first patient arrhythmia cardiogram from the patient. The method identifies a first target location and a first ablation pattern associated with a first library arrhythmia cardiogram that is similar to the first patient arrhythmia cardiogram. The method then performs a first ablation near the first target location, factoring in the first ablation pattern, and after the ablation, collects a second patient arrhythmia cardiogram of the patient. The method continues to identify a second target location and a second ablation pattern associated with a second library arrhythmia cardiogram that is similar to the second patient arrhythmia cardiogram. The second library arrhythmia cardiogram is identified, in part, based on ablation characteristics of the first ablation. The method then performs a second ablation near the second target location, factoring in the second ablation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Vektor Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. T. Villongco, Robert Joseph Krummen
  • Publication number: 20220133207
    Abstract: Systems are provided for generating data representing electromagnetic states of a heart for medical, scientific, research, and/or engineering purposes. The systems generate the data based on source configurations such as dimensions of, and scar or fibrosis or pro-arrhythmic substrate location within, a heart and a computational model of the electromagnetic output of the heart. The systems may dynamically generate the source configurations to provide representative source configurations that may be found in a population. For each source configuration of the electromagnetic source, the systems run a simulation of the functioning of the heart to generate modeled electromagnetic output (e.g., an electromagnetic mesh for each simulation step with a voltage at each point of the electromagnetic mesh) for that source configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher J. T. Villongco