Systems and methods for configuring a brain control interface using data from deployed systems

Universal switch modules, universal switches, and methods of using the same are disclosed, including methods of preparing an individual to interface with an electronic device or software. For example, a method is disclosed that can include measuring brain-related signals of the individual to obtain a first sensed brain-related signal when the individual generates a task-irrelevant thought. The method can include transmitting the first sensed brain-related signal to a processing unit. The method can include associating the task-irrelevant thought and the first sensed brain-related signal with N input commands. The method can include compiling the task-irrelevant thought, the first sensed brain-related signal, and the N input commands to an electronic database.

The abstract as published by the patent office, from US2022253024A1. It describes the invention; it is not a statement of what is protected.

• Interface and electrodes

  Electrodes and arrays

• Packaging

  Packaging and hermeticity

• Telemetry

  Wireless telemetry

• Stimulation

  Stimulation

What the filing appears to be about, read by published rules from its title, abstract and classification codes (A61B5/0031, A61B5/4064, A61B5/6868, A61B5/7465, A61N1/0529). 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 13 times in 4 offices. Each publication opens in Espacenet.

• International (PCT)a route to several countries, not a countryWO2021086972A16 May 2021
• AustraliaAU2020373042A116 Jun 2022AU2020373042A221 Jul 2022AU2020373042B223 Oct 2025
• United StatesUS2022253024A111 Aug 2022US11625014B211 Apr 2023 · grantUS2023350360A12 Nov 2023US12032345B29 Jul 2024 · grantUS20240319692A126 Sep 2024US12455543B228 Oct 2025 · grantUS20260036954A15 Feb 2026
• European Patent Officea route to several countries, not a countryEP4048371A131 Aug 2022EP4048371A413 Mar 2024

1. 29 Oct 2019First filingEarliest priority, at United States. The family is counted in this year.
2. 28 Oct 2020ApplicationsFiled at International (PCT), Australia, European Patent Office.
3. 6 May 2021First publicationWO2021086972A1, International (PCT).
4. 28 Apr 2022ApplicationFiled at United States.
5. 29 Apr 2022Owner recordedUnited States, on US2022253024A1: assignment; owner named: SYNCHRON AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED, AUSTRALIA.
6. 2 Mar 2023ApplicationFiled at United States.
7. 7 Jun 2024ApplicationFiled at United States.
8. 6 Oct 2025ApplicationFiled at United States.
9. 6 Oct 2025Owner recordedUnited States, on US20260036954A1: assignment; owner named: SYNCHRON AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED, DELAWARE.
10. 28 Oct 2025Grant publishedUS12455543B2, United States.
11. 22 Jul 2026Owner recordedEuropean Patent Office, on EP4048371A1: party data changed (applicant data changed or rights of an application transferred); owner named: SYNCHRON AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.

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

Synchron · 28 families identified

• Bibliographic data, family members and office records: European Patent Office, Open Patent Services (the DOCDB and INPADOC databases), read 7 Oct 2026.
• The record itself, with its claims and description: US2022253024A1 in Espacenet
• Counted as a BCI patent family: classified G06F3/015 (input arrangements based on nervous-system activity); filed by Synchron Australia Pty Limited, an organisation already in the graph; describes neural hardware or methods without naming the field; cites a family already accepted. How families are found and judged