Physician-built medical devices
Medicine has friction. We build the instruments that remove it.
Kathero is a physician-founded device studio in Texas. We invent and patent clinical devices — and consult on device design, intellectual property, and clinical informatics.
What we do
From clinical problem to protected, working device.
Every project starts where devices should: at the bedside, with a problem that costs time, safety, or dignity.
Device creation
Our core work. Needs-finding, CAD, multiphysics simulation, prototyping, and study design — carried from first sketch to published evidence.
View the pipeline →Clinical ethics advisory
HEC-C–certified guidance for teams building AI and devices that touch patients — trustworthy-systems review and governance that stands up to scrutiny.
Ethics advisory →Informatics & device consulting
Epic Physician Builder, clinical AI deployment, and analytics — plus design review for teams building their own devices.
Consulting services →Aristotle called it catharsis: the purge that leaves you renewed. Kathero builds for the same effect — instruments that remove what harms and keep what heals.
How devices get made
A disciplined path, walked before.
Identify
A real problem, found at the bedside — not in a brainstorm.
Validate
CAD and multiphysics simulation before a dollar of tooling.
Protect
Prior-art search and provisional filing — early, quietly.
Build
Rapid prototypes iterated in the hands of clinicians.
Prove
Published studies and trials.
The Temple Laryngoscope
A video laryngoscope blade that clears its own lens. An integrated high-velocity oxygen jet keeps the optics — and the airway — clear when blood or vomit would otherwise blind the view. Concept published in Cureus (2026); a randomized, blinded simulation trial against standard video laryngoscopy is under review.
Have a clinical problem worth solving?
Inventors, institutions, and investors — if it belongs in the pipeline, we want to hear about it.
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