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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2020
Applicant:
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Inventors:
Charles W. Cummings, Baltimore, MD (US);
Allen L. Feng, Baltimore, MD (US);
Christopher Razavi, Baltimore, MD (US);
Alexander T. Hillel, Baltimore, MD (US);
Assignee:
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/20 (2013.01); A61F 2210/009 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0025 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0041 (2013.01);
Abstract
A minimally invasive magnetic vocal fold manipulator system and method is disclosed. Namely, a magnetic vocal fold manipulator system is provided that includes a magnetics-based thyroid cartilage implant, a magnetics-based arytenoid cartilage implant, and an implant introducer device. Additionally, a method is provided of using the minimally invasive magnetic vocal fold manipulator system for performing lateralization and/or medialization of the vocal cord.