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      "Minimally invasive — no craniectomy, ~2-hour catheter procedure",
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      "First permanently-implanted BCI under a US FDA IDE"
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      "Only ~16 channels — orders of magnitude fewer than Neuralink/Paradromics/Precision",
      "Vascular ECoG signal is lower-resolution than penetrating intracortical recording",
      "Limited to motor-cortex regions accessible via the sagittal sinus"
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      "blackrock-utah-array",
      "paradromics-connexus",
      "precision-layer-7"
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        "label": "ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03834857 — SWITCH",
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