Patents by Inventor Gerardo V. Noriega
Gerardo V. Noriega 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).
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Patent number: 9113955Abstract: Systems and methods for crossing stenosis, partial occlusions, or complete occlusions within a body lumen. The systems generally include an elongate member such as a hollow guidewire that houses a rotatable and translatable drive shaft. The drive shaft typically has a distal portion that is advanced to create a path in the occlusive material that is large enough to allow the hollow guidewire to cross the occlusive material.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Revascular Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Gerardo V. Noriega, Victor Chechelski, Rudolfo Sudaria
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Publication number: 20140171988Abstract: Systems and methods for crossing stenosis, partial occlusions, or complete occlusions within a body lumen. The systems generally include an elongate member such as a hollow guidewire that houses a rotatable and translatable drive shaft. The drive shaft typically has a distal portion that is advanced to create a path in the occlusive material that is large enough to allow the hollow guidewire to cross the occlusive material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2014Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Revascular Therapeutics Inc.Inventors: Gerardo V. Noriega, Victor Chechelski, Rudolfo Sudaria
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Patent number: 8747332Abstract: Systems and methods for crossing stenosis, partial occlusions, or complete occlusions within a body lumen. The systems generally include an elongate member such as a hollow guidewire that houses a rotatable and translatable drive shaft. The drive shaft typically has a distal portion that is advanced to create a path in the occlusive material that is large enough to allow the hollow guidewire to cross the occlusive material.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Revascular Therapeutics Inc.Inventors: Gerardo V. Noriega, Victor Chechelski, Rudolfo Sudaria
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Publication number: 20130296906Abstract: Systems and methods for crossing stenosis, partial occlusions, or complete occlusions within a body lumen. The systems generally include an elongate member such as a hollow guidewire that houses a rotatable and translatable drive shaft. The drive shaft typically has a distal portion that is advanced to create a path in the occlusive material that is large enough to allow the hollow guidewire to cross the occlusive material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Gerardo V. Noriega, Victor Chechelski, Rudolfo Sudaria
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Publication number: 20130289578Abstract: A device for capturing a clot in a blood vessel comprises an outer shaft, an inner shaft slidably disposed in a lumen of the outer shaft, and clot capture arms secured to a distal end of the inner shaft. The device is navigated and advanced through the vasculature to reach the location of a blood clot. An anchoring element on the outer shaft is expanded to anchor the device at the location of the blood clot. The clot capture arms are extended from the open end of the outer shaft. As the clot capture arms are extended, the distal portions of the arms gradually open into radially inwardly curved configurations to capture the clot. With the clot captured, the arms are retracted back into the outer shaft along with the clot. The anchoring element is then collapsed, and the device, with the clot captured therein, is retracted from the vasculature.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: YAWA-MED, INC.Inventors: GERARDO V. NORIEGA, RODOLFO B. SUDARIA, SARAH E. VAN KEULEN, SOFIA A. POUR, KRISTIAN C. HOCKENSON, VICTOR CHECHELSKI
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Patent number: 8496680Abstract: Systems and methods for crossing stenosis, partial occlusions, or complete occlusions within a body lumen. The systems generally include an elongate member such as a hollow guidewire that houses a rotatable and translatable drive shaft. The drive shaft typically has a distal portion that is advanced to create a path in the occlusive material that is large enough to allow the hollow guidewire to cross the occlusive material.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Revascular Therapeutics Inc.Inventors: Gerardo V. Noriega, Victor Chechelski, Rudolfo Sudaria
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Patent number: 8353922Abstract: Systems and methods for crossing stenosis, partial occlusions, or complete occlusions within a body lumen. The systems generally include an elongate member such as a hollow guidewire that houses a rotatable and translatable drive shaft. The drive shaft typically has a distal portion that is advanced to create a path in the occlusive material that is large enough to allow the hollow guidewire to cross the occlusive material.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Revascular Therapeutics, IncInventors: Gerardo V. Noriega, Victor Chechelski, Sudaria Rudolfo
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Patent number: 8167830Abstract: Methods and apparatus for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia rely on imparting a low frequency vibration to the prostate. A treatment catheter is introduced through the urethra, and the vibrating element on the catheter energized within the prostate. The low frequency vibration reduces pressure from the prostate on the urethra, possibly by inducing apoptosis of smooth muscle cells.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Inventor: Gerardo V. Noriega
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Publication number: 20120010640Abstract: Systems and methods for crossing stenosis, partial occlusions, or complete occlusions within a body lumen. The systems generally include an elongate member such as a hollow guidewire that houses a rotatable and translatable drive shaft. The drive shaft typically has a distal portion that is advanced to create a path in the occlusive material that is large enough to allow the hollow guidewire to cross the occlusive material.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: REVASCULAR THERAPEUTICS, INC.Inventors: Gerardo V. Noriega, Victor Chechelski, Rudolfo Sudaria
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Patent number: 8043312Abstract: Systems and methods for crossing stenosis, partial occlusions, or complete occlusions within a body lumen. The systems generally include an elongate member such as a hollow guidewire that houses a rotatable and translatable drive shaft. The drive shaft typically has a distal portion that is advanced to create a path in the occlusive material that is large enough to allow the hollow guidewire to cross the occlusive material.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2005Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Revascular Therapeutics Inc.Inventors: Gerardo V. Noriega, Victor Chechelski, Rudolfo Sudaria
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Patent number: 8043314Abstract: Systems and methods for crossing stenosis, partial occlusions, or complete occlusions within a body lumen. The systems generally include an elongate member such as a hollow guidewire that houses a rotatable and translatable drive shaft. The drive shaft typically has a distal portion that is advanced to create a path in the occlusive material that is large enough to allow the hollow guidewire to cross the occlusive material.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Revascular Therapeutics Inc.Inventors: Gerardo V. Noriega, Victor Chechelski, Rudolfo Sudaria
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Publication number: 20100049169Abstract: Systems and methods for crossing stenosis, partial occlusions, or complete occlusions within a body lumen. The systems generally include an elongate member such as a hollow guidewire that houses a rotatable and translatable drive shaft. The drive shaft typically has a distal portion that is advanced to create a path in the occlusive material that is large enough to allow the hollow guidewire to cross the occlusive material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: ReVascular Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Gerardo V. Noriega, Victor Chechelski, Rudolfo Sudaria
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Patent number: 7628763Abstract: Systems and methods for crossing stenosis, partial occlusions, or complete occlusions within a body lumen. The systems generally include an elongate member such as a hollow guidewire that houses a rotatable and translatable drive shaft. The drive shaft typically has a distal portion that is advanced to create a path in the occlusive material that is large enough to allow the hollow guidewire to cross the occlusive material.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2004Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Revascular Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Gerardo V. Noriega, Victor Chechelski, Rudolfo Sudaria
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Publication number: 20080154160Abstract: Methods and apparatus for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia rely on imparting a low frequency vibration to the prostate. A treatment catheter is introduced through the urethra, and the vibrating element on the catheter energized within the prostate. The low frequency vibration reduces pressure from the prostate on the urethra, possibly by inducing apoptosis of smooth muscle cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventor: Gerardo V. Noriega
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Publication number: 20080140101Abstract: A torqueable hollow device, such as a hollow guidewire device, with a pre-determined fixed distal tip is disclosed for removing occlusive material and passing through occlusions, stenosis, thrombus, plaque, calcified material, and other materials in a body lumen, such as a coronary artery. The hollow guidewire generally comprises an elongate, tubular guidewire body that has an axial lumen. A mechanically moving core element is positioned at or near a distal end of the tubular guidewire body and extends through the axial lumen. Actuation of the core element (e.g., oscillation, reciprocation, and/or rotation) creates a passage through the occlusive or stenotic material in the body lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: ReVascular Therapeutic, Inc.Inventors: Michael Carley, Victor Chechelski, Rudolfo Sudaria, Nestor Aganon, Christopher Huynh, Gerardo V. Noriega
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Publication number: 20070239140Abstract: A controller system includes a device configured to cross an occlusion or stenosis and a control unit. The occlusion-crossing device has an axial lumen and a drive shaft extending through the axial lumen. The control unit is coupled to the device. The control unit has a processor which produces a variable sound and a variable visual display in response to a load measurement on the drive shaft. The load may be measured by a change in current in a motor which drives the shaft. This change in current is then converted to a frequency for variable sound and to a visual display indicative of the load. The load status on the motor may be divided into discrete load levels and correspondingly indicated by discrete levels in the feedback sound frequency and the visual display. This system may be used to monitor and facilitate crossing vascular total occlusions during percutaneous interventions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2006Publication date: October 11, 2007Applicant: ReVascular Therapeutics Inc.Inventors: Victor Chechelski, Gerardo V. Noriega, Keith Riordan, Menahem Nassi, Michael Carley
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Patent number: 6824550Abstract: Systems and methods for crossing stenosis, partial occlusions, or complete occlusions within a body lumen. The systems generally include an elongate member such as a hollow guidewire that houses a rotatable and translatable drive shaft. The drive shaft typically has a distal portion that is advanced to create a path in the occlusive material that is large enough to allow the hollow guidewire to cross the occlusive material.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2000Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Norbon Medical, Inc.Inventors: Gerardo V. Noriega, Victor Chechelski, Rudolfo Sudaria
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Patent number: 6059767Abstract: Medical guidewires and catheters include tubular bodies having coils at their distal ends to permit steering through the vasculature. The guidewires and catheters are useful for delivering fluids to a target site, draining body fluids from a target site, and are particularly useful for the infusion of medicaments to sites within the body.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 1998Date of Patent: May 9, 2000Assignee: Norborn Medical, Inc.Inventor: Gerardo V. Noriega