Patent familyBCI, high confidence
Secure interfaces for neural devices
Filed by Precision Neuroscience, first in 2022.
- Earliest priority
- 20 Oct 2022 · United States
- Status
- A grant was published in United States, first on 11 Aug 2026
- Published in
- United States · International (PCT) · Australia · European Patent Office
- Registered as
- PRECISION NEUROSCIENCE CORPORATION
- Inventors
- Rapoport, Benjamin I. · Hettick, Mark · Mermel, Craig H. · Monge, Manuel · Murphy, Mark · Trietsch, Daniel · and 2 more
- Family
- DOCDB 88839583 · 6 publications
What it concerns
A neural device system that can include a neural device configured to sense data associated with the subject or receive control input, an external device communicably coupled to the neural device, a storage medium communicable coupled to the external device, and one or more communications interfaces between the neural device, the external device, and the storage medium or components thereof, wherein the one or more communications interfaces comprise an encryption protocol.
The abstract as published by the patent office, from US20240137348A1. It describes the invention; it is not a statement of what is protected.
Protection themes
The title, abstract and classes do not place this family in a theme.
What the filing appears to be about, read by published rules from its title, abstract and classification codes (A61B5/262, A61B5/37, A61B5/375, A61B5/4836, A61B5/6868). The claims define what a patent protects, and they are not read here.
Why it matters
Not placed in a layer of the stack.
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The family
One invention, published 6 times in 4 offices. Each publication opens in Espacenet.
- United StatesUS20240137348A125 Apr 2024US20240236053A911 Jul 2024US12706887B211 Aug 2026 · grant
- International (PCT)a route to several countries, not a countryWO2024086351A125 Apr 2024
- AustraliaAU2023365489A110 Apr 2025
- European Patent Officea route to several countries, not a countryEP4605949A127 Aug 2025
Timeline
- 20 Oct 2022First filingEarliest priority, at United States. The family is counted in this year.
- 20 Oct 2023ApplicationsFiled at United States, International (PCT), Australia, European Patent Office.
- 25 Apr 2024First publicationUS20240137348A1, United States.
- 12 Dec 2024Owner recordedUnited States, on US20240137348A1: assignment; owner named: PRECISION NEUROSCIENCE CORPORATION, NEW YORK.
- 11 Aug 2026Grant publishedUS12706887B2, 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.
Sources
- 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: US20240137348A1 in Espacenet
- Counted as a BCI patent family: classified G06F3/015 (input arrangements based on nervous-system activity); filed by PRECISION NEUROSCIENCE CORPORATION, an organisation already in the graph; a neural subject, in the field's own class; cites a family already accepted. How families are found and judged