Brain injury rehabilitation method utilizing brain activity monitoring

The present invention provides a system and method of monitoring brain injury rehabilitation and a rehabilitation method which utilizes a non-invasive monitoring device.

The abstract as published by the patent office, from US20240016436A1. It describes the invention; it is not a statement of what is protected.

• Interface and electrodes

  Optical interfaces

• Signal processing

  Signal processing

• Decoding

  Neural decoding

• Application

  Assistive and control applications

What the filing appears to be about, read by published rules from its title, abstract and classification codes (A61B2505/09, A61B5/0006, A61B5/0022, A61B5/0075, A61B5/055). 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.

Signal processing

A decoder is only as good as the features it is given, and recordings drift and pick up noise from movement, muscle and stimulation. The problem behind it: stable features from signals that change from day to day, computed fast enough to act on.

Decoding

This is the step that turns brain activity into a command or a word. Its accuracy and speed are what a user experiences. The problem behind it: accuracy that holds over months without frequent recalibration, for more than one user and one task.

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 4 times in 4 offices. Each publication opens in Espacenet.

• CanadaCA3185760A124 Feb 2022
• International (PCT)a route to several countries, not a countryWO2022036447A124 Feb 2022
• European Patent Officea route to several countries, not a countryEP4199808A128 Jun 2023
• United StatesUS20240016436A118 Jan 2024

1. 19 Aug 2020First filingEarliest priority, at United States. The family is counted in this year.
2. 18 Aug 2021ApplicationsFiled at Canada, International (PCT), European Patent Office, United States.
3. 24 Feb 2022First publicationCA3185760A1, Canada.

Dates as the offices published them. Records of lapses, withdrawals and changes of owner have not been read for this family, and whether a patent is in force today is not assessed.

Organisation

Axem Neurotechnology · 3 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: US20240016436A1 in Espacenet
• Counted as a BCI patent family: classified A61B5/369 (electroencephalography); filed by AXEM NEUROTECHNOLOGY INC., 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