The Johns Hopkins University

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

James Duncan Beaty

Nitish V Thakor

George L Coles

Umang Anand

Dennis Werner

Stuart D Harshbarger

R Jacob Vogelstein

Kalyna Sconzert

James Cawthra

Timothy P Harrigan

Reggie Roth

Jason Kilvington

Keith Bulkin

Ramji Rengarajan

Tom Jancaric

Joseph A Walters

Kenton J Zehr

Victor San Hou Yu

Todd Christopher Crawford

A buoy system for treating cardiac valve regurgitation comprising a movable plug having atrial and ventricular ends, wherein a through-hole passes from the atrial to the ventricular end, wherein during systole, the plug travels toward a cardiac atrium, wherein during diastole, the plug travels into a cardiac ventricle; a tether having atrial and ventricular ends, wherein the tether passes through the through-hole of the moving plug, wherein the atrial end of the tether projects into an atrium, wherein the atrial end of the tether includes a cap to engage a delivery tool; at least one distal anchor located in the ventricle, wherein the distal anchor is coupled to the ventricular end of the tether, and wherein the system is percutaneously delivered and optionally recaptured via catheter and recapture tool at the cap of the tether, respectively.

Systems and methods of treating malfunctioning cardiac valves

Methods and systems to interface between physiological devices and a prosthetic device, including to receive a plurality of types of physiological activity signals from a user, decode a user movement intent from each of the plurality of signals types, and fuse the movement intents into a joint decision to control moveable elements of the prosthetic device.

Multi-modal neural interfacing for prosthetic devices

Growing community of inventors

Sandy Hook, CT, United States of America

James Duncan Beaty