Patents by Inventor Katie Nicole Riojas

Katie Nicole Riojas 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).

  • Publication number: 20230225865
    Abstract: Methods and devices for transvascular prosthetic chordae tendinea implantation are disclosed. A catheter is advanced into the left atrium. From an atrium side, the catheter can be anchored to a superior surface of a mitral valve leaflet and a leaflet anchor can be advanced into the mitral valve leaflet to secure the mitral valve leaflet to a leaflet suture. A ventricular anchor is anchored to the wall of the ventricle to secure the ventricular wall to a ventricle suture. The leaflet suture and the ventricle suture may be tensioned and connected by a suture lock to form an artificial chordae.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Cameron Paul Purcell, Gordon B. Bishop, Trung Ho Pham, Stephen R. McDaniel, Hien Ngoc Lam, Whittaker Ian Hamill, Katie Nicole Riojas
  • Publication number: 20220338990
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods for cardiac device anchoring and more specifically to accessing and anchoring in the pericardial space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Whittaker I. Hamill, Todd J. Johnson, Stephen R. McDaniel, Cameron Paul Purcell, Katie Nicole Riojas, Kip J. Wetter, Paul Sorajja