Wairagkar, Maitreyee https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9546-2843
Card, Nicholas S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6858-268X
Singer-Clark, Tyler https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8636-5075
Hou, Xianda https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2066-8561
Iacobacci, Carrina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1690-6272
Miller, Lee M.
Hochberg, Leigh R. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0261-2273
Brandman, David M. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3224-7019
Stavisky, Sergey D. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5238-0573
Article History
Received: 19 September 2024
Accepted: 8 May 2025
First Online: 12 June 2025
Competing interests
: S.D.S. is an inventor on intellectual property related to speech decoding submitted and owned by Stanford University (US patent no. 12008987) that has been licensed to Blackrock Neurotech and Neuralink. M.W., S.D.S. and D.M.B. have patent applications related to speech BCI submitted and owned by the Regents of the University of California (US patent application no. 63/461,507 and 63/450,317), including intellectual property licensed by Paradromics. D.M.B. was a surgical consultant with Paradromics, completing his consultation during the revision period of the paper. He is a consultant for Globus Medical. S.D.S. is a scientific adviser to Sonera. The MGH Translational Research Center has a clinical research support agreement with Ability Neuro, Axoft, Neuralink, Neurobionics, Paradromics, Precision Neuro, Synchron and Reach Neuro, for which L.R.H. provides consultative input. Mass General Brigham is convening the Implantable Brain-Computer Interface Collaborative Community (iBCI-CC); charitable gift agreements to Mass General Brigham, including those received to date from Paradromics, Synchron, Precision Neuro, Neuralink and Blackrock Neurotech, support the iBCI-CC, for which L.R.H. provides effort. The other authors declare no competing interests.