US 12,220,311 B2
Minimally invasive magnetic vocal fold manipulator
Charles W. Cummings, Baltimore, MD (US); Allen L. Feng, Baltimore, MD (US); Christopher Razavi, Baltimore, MD (US); and Alexander T. Hillel, Baltimore, MD (US)
Assigned to The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US)
Appl. No. 17/604,650
Filed by The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/028714
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 18, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/214927, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/836,141, filed on Apr. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0183822 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/20 (2013.01) [A61F 2210/009 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0025 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0041 (2013.01)] 35 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for manipulating a position of a vocal fold of a subject comprising:
(a) a thyroid cartilage implant comprising a magnet housed in a body, wherein the body is seated within a translational bushing mated to an anchoring flange, wherein the body comprises a hollow tubular body having a slotted end and an opposite non-slotted end, wherein the anchoring flange is adapted to be affixed to a thyroid cartilage of the subject; and
(b) an arytenoid screw adapted to be affixed to an arytenoid cartilage of the subject.