Heartport Inc.

Heartport, Inc. is a cardiovascular device company that develops, manufactures and markets proprietary products designed to make cardiac surgery less invasive for patients. The Company's technologies allow surgeons to perform a wide range of less invasive open-chest and minimally invasive heart operations, including stopped heart and beating heart procedures. The Company's Port-Access systems for stopped heart surgeries are designed to enable surgeons to perform several types of cardiac surgeries in a minimally invasive manner through small incisions, or "ports," between the ribs without the need to crack open the chest as required in conventional heart surgery. The company was acquired by Johnson and Johnson in 2001.