Patterned microwire bundles and methods of producing the same

Systems and methods for manufacturing and processing microwires for use as microelectrodes are disclosed. The disclosed techniques provide methods for creating microelectrode bundles with different organizations and patterns. Systems and methods of the present disclosure also provide methods for electrochemically modifying bundles of microelectrode ends.

The abstract as published by the patent office, from US2020056299A1. It describes the invention; it is not a statement of what is protected.

• Interface and electrodes

  Electrodes and arrays

• Packaging

  Connectors and feedthroughs

• Telemetry

  Wireless telemetry

What the filing appears to be about, read by published rules from its title, abstract and classification codes (A61N1/0529, A61N1/37205, C25D7/0607, Y10T29/49117). The claims define what a patent protects, and they are not read here.

Interface and electrodes

Everything downstream works with what the contacts pick up. Their number, size and distance from the neurons set the ceiling on the signal. The problem behind it: more contacts, closer to neurons, that still record after years in tissue that reacts to them.

Packaging

Body fluid destroys unprotected electronics. An implant meant to last has to stay sealed for years while passing every channel through its wall. The problem behind it: a seal that lasts as long as the patient needs it, at a size that leaves room for the channels.

Telemetry

Thousands of channels produce more data than a low-power radio can carry raw, so what is sent, and how, decides what the system can use. The problem behind it: high data rates at low power through tissue, reliably and securely.

Why the layer matters to the field, not a judgement of this filing. A patent family shows that protection was sought. It does not show that the technology was built, is used in a product, or works in people. The whole stack

One invention, published 3 times in 2 offices. Each publication opens in Espacenet.

• International (PCT)a route to several countries, not a countryWO2018183967A14 Oct 2018
• United StatesUS2020056299A120 Feb 2020US11401620B22 Aug 2022 · grant

1. 30 Mar 2017First filingEarliest priority, at United States. The family is counted in this year.
2. 30 Mar 2018ApplicationFiled at International (PCT).
3. 4 Oct 2018First publicationWO2018183967A1, International (PCT).
4. 26 Sep 2019ApplicationFiled at United States.
5. 15 Apr 2020Office recordInternational (PCT), on WO2018183967A1: ep: pct application non-entry in european phase.
6. 18 Nov 2020Owner recordedUnited States, on US2020056299A1: assignment; owner named: PARADROMICS, INC., TEXAS.
7. 18 Nov 2020Owner recordedUnited States, on US2020056299A1: assignment; owner named: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA.
8. 2 Aug 2022Grant publishedUS11401620B2, United States.

Dates as the offices published them. Office records are in the offices' own words and are a selection: refusals, lapses and withdrawals, and records that name an owner. Each concerns one member of the family, not the family as a whole, and another member in the same office may stand. Whether a patent is in force today is not assessed.

Organisation

Paradromics · 13 families identified

Technology

Intracortical

• Bibliographic data, family members and office records: European Patent Office, Open Patent Services (the DOCDB and INPADOC databases), read 11 Oct 2026.
• The record itself, with its claims and description: US2020056299A1 in Espacenet
• Counted as a BCI patent family: classified A61N1/0529 (electrodes for brain stimulation); filed by PARADROMICS, INC., an organisation already in the graph; a hardware layer of the stack, filed by a company that builds interfaces; cites a family already accepted. How families are found and judged