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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Study: Physically-active video games (‘exergames’) boost cognition more than physical activity alone

By SharpBrains | May 5, 2017

— Active gam­ing is good for brain health and mem­o­ry, finds study (Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­ches­ter release): “Video games which involve phys­i­cal activ­i­ty sig­nif­i­cant­ly boost our brain health as we get old­er, accord­ing to new research led by Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­ches­ter experts. Study authors Dr Emma Stan­more and Joseph Firth say sys­tems that use phys­i­cal activity…

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Improving brain stimulation’s efficacy and efficiency: Key neurotechnology patent #32

By SharpBrains | March 20, 2017
neural stimulation efficiency

Today we high­light a key brain stim­u­la­tion patent assigned to Advanced Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion Sys­tems. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 7,483,747: Sys­tems and meth­ods for enhanc­ing or affect­ing neur­al stim­u­la­tion effi­cien­cy and/or effi­ca­cy. Assignee(s): Advanced Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion Sys­tems, Inc. Inventor(s): Brad­ford Evan Glin­er, Allen Wyler, Brad Fowler,…

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Tailoring computing experience based on user’s mental state and quality of attention: Key neurotechnology patent #30

By SharpBrains | March 14, 2017
Automated selection

Today we high­light a fas­ci­nat­ing 2008 patent assigned to Microsoft, dis­cussing assess­ment tech­niques such as pupil track­ing or head ori­en­ta­tion sen­sors to iden­ti­fy where and what the user is focused on–and what types of  infor­ma­tion and/ or noti­fi­ca­tions to dis­play accord­ing­ly. U.S. Patent No. 7,395,507: Auto­mat­ed selec­tion of appro­pri­ate infor­ma­tion based on a com­put­er user’s context.…

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Starting today: Past and Future Pervasive Neurotechnologies, as seen through 50 Key Patents

By SharpBrains | January 31, 2017

—– In order to pro­vide a bet­ter per­spec­tive into the evo­lu­tion of the dig­i­tal brain health indus­try, we are shar­ing some of our analy­sis of 50 foun­da­tion­al patents, as iden­ti­fied and dis­cussed in the 2015 mar­ket report Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy: A Ground­break­ing Analy­sis of 10,000+ Patent Fil­ings Trans­form­ing Med­i­cine, Health, Enter­tain­ment and Busi­ness. We will dis­cuss one patent a…

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