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

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– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 7,483,747

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, W. Dou­glas Sheffield, Richard Kuntz, Kent Leyde, Leif R. Sloan
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Tran­scra­nial Stimulation
  • Issue Date: Jan­u­ary 27, 2009

SharpBrains’ Take:

The ‘747 patent dis­clos­es meth­ods for improv­ing effi­ca­cy and effi­cien­cy of brain stim­u­la­tion by pro­vid­ing two dis­tinct phas­es of elec­tro­mag­net­ic stim­u­la­tion that vary from one anoth­er in para­me­ters such as time of stim­u­la­tion, ampli­tude of sig­nal, loca­tion of treat­ment, fre­quen­cy of pulse, etc. [Read more…] about Improv­ing brain stimulation’s effi­ca­cy and effi­cien­cy: Key neu­rotech­nol­o­gy patent #32