magnetic stimulation

Enabling deep, focused transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): Key neurotechnology patent #34

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– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 7,520,848

Today we are shar­ing a key 2009 patent, assigned to Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, that enables the stim­u­la­tion of deep­er struc­tures of the brain with­out over­whelm­ing super­fi­cial struc­tures that are not the focus of treat­ment. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date)

U.S. Patent No. 7,520,848: Robot­ic appa­ra­tus for tar­get­ing and pro­duc­ing deep, focused tran­scra­nial mag­net­ic stimulation

  • Assignee(s): Board of Trustees of the Leland Stan­ford Junior University
  • Inventor(s): M. Bret Schnei­der, David J. Mishelevich
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Tran­scra­nial Stimulation
  • Issue Date: April 21, 2009

SharpBrains’ Take:

The ‘848 patent dis­clos­es tech­niques for stim­u­lat­ing deep­er struc­tures of the brain with­out over­whelm­ing super­fi­cial struc­tures that are not the focus of treat­ment. [Read more…] about Enabling deep, focused tran­scra­nial mag­net­ic stim­u­la­tion (TMS): Key neu­rotech­nol­o­gy patent #34

NeuroPace ranked #9 Holder of Pervasive Neurotech Intellectual Property*

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NeuroPaceNeu­roPace is a pri­vate­ly held com­pa­ny whose main prod­uct is the RNS (respon­sive neu­rostim­u­la­tion) Sys­tem for treat­ment of refrac­to­ry epilep­sy. Respon­sive neu­rostim­u­la­tion is a tech­nique [Read more…] about Neu­roPace ranked #9 Hold­er of Per­va­sive Neu­rotech Intel­lec­tu­al Property*