Connecting cardiological and neurological health: Key neurotech patent by Medtronic

By SharpBrains | May 11, 2017
cardiac signals

Today we are shar­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing Medtron­ic patent com­bin­ing car­diac mon­i­tor­ing with brain stim­u­la­tion. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patents, from old­er to new­er by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 8,209,009: Sys­tem and method for seg­ment­ing a car­diac sig­nal based on brain stim­u­la­tion Assignee(s): Medtron­ic, Inc. Inventor(s): Jonathon E. Gif­takis, Nina M. Graves, Mark Turn­er Rise Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Neuro-monitoring…

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The future of EEG-based personal devices monitoring brain function: Key neurotechnology patent #26

By SharpBrains | March 6, 2017
medical communication device

Today we high­light a very inter­est­ing 2006 patent assigned to Phillips and Accen­ture — who have been col­lab­o­rat­ing  to devel­op soft­ware for EEG-based oper­a­tion of home appli­ances to aid patients suf­fer­ing from neu­ro­gen­er­a­tive dis­eases such as ALS (amy­otroph­ic lat­er­al scle­ro­sis). U.S. Patent No. 7,138,902: Per­son­al med­ical com­mu­ni­ca­tion device and sys­tem Assignee(s): Phillips, Accen­ture Inventor(s): Ray­mond J.…

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Medical signal monitoring and display: Key Neurotech Patent #3

By SharpBrains | February 2, 2017
medial-signal-monitoring and display

Today we are shar­ing a 2001 patent assigned to Care­fu­sion 209, Inc. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 6,224,549: Med­ical sig­nal mon­i­tor­ing and dis­play Assignee(s): Care­fu­sion 209, Inc. Inventor(s): Wirm van Dron­ge­len Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: EEG Issue Date: May 1, 2001 Sharp­Brains’ Take: The ‘549…

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Witnessing an explosion of consumer-facing neurotechnologies to (potentially) harness lifelong neuroplasticity

By Apoorv Mathur | January 30, 2017

— Last week I shared some key sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and invest­ment trends rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Brain Health, based on my par­tic­i­pa­tion at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, and promised a sec­ond arti­cle more focused on the tech­nol­o­gy side of things. Here it is :-) Just a few weeks after the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit I also attend­ed CES 2017. While I enjoyed the myr­i­ad emerging…

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News: Advanced Brain Monitoring receives Global Health and Pharma Award for clinical-grade platforms monitoring brain’s electrical activity

By SharpBrains | January 26, 2017

— Advanced Brain Mon­i­tor­ing Named “Most Inno­v­a­tive Med­ical Device Com­pa­ny” at Glob­al Health and Phar­ma Awards (Sleep Review): “Advanced Brain Mon­i­tor­ing Inc was named the “Most Inno­v­a­tive Med­ical Device Com­pa­ny” by Glob­al Health and Phar­ma at its 2016 Health­care and Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal awards. “This award rec­og­nizes our company’s suc­cess­es in devel­op­ing tech­nolo­gies which enable clin­i­cians and…

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