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

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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 day, from old­er to new­er by issue date. Today we are shar­ing a 1999 patent assigned to Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing Cor­po­ra­tion. We hope you enjoy the peek into the future 🙂

– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 5,927,988

U.S. Patent No. 5,927,988: Method and appa­ra­tus for train­ing of sen­so­ry and per­cep­tu­al sys­tems in LLI subjects

  • Assignee(s): Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing Corp.
  • Inventor(s): William M. Jenk­ins, Michael M. Merzenich, Steven Lam­ont Miller, Bret E. Peter­son, Paula Tallal
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Neu­roCog­ni­tive Training
  • Issue Date: July 27, 1999

SharpBrains’ Take:

The ‘988 patent is one of Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing’s patents direct­ed to cog­ni­tive train­ing in the area of lan­guage improve­ment and speech train­ing — an area that affects a wide num­ber of indi­vid­u­als rang­ing from chil­dren with lan­guage dis­abil­i­ties to stroke vic­tims suf­fer­ing from lost neu­ro­log­i­cal con­nec­tions nec­es­sary for audi­to­ry com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Employ­ing adap­tive learn­ing tech­niques, the ‘988 patent pro­vides meth­ods that test a user’s abil­i­ty to deci­pher words emit­ted via a com­put­er speech syn­the­siz­er [Read more…] about Start­ing today: Past and Future Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nolo­gies, as seen through 50 Key Patents