Nerve implant with protective structure

A neural implant for a brain region, comprising at least one stimulation section for generating an electrical stimulation signal for the brain region, an electrode section having at least one electrode, the electrode section is coupled to the at least one stimulation section via a direct current connection and can be arranged in the brain region and is designed to apply an electrical stimulation signal to the brain region, and at least one first protection structure section, which is designed to monitor the stimulation section, wherein the at least one first protective structure section is powered by a first energy source and the at least one stimulation section is powered by a second energy source, and the first energy source is electrically isolated from the second energy source.

The abstract as published by the patent office, from US20240091526A1. It describes the invention; it is not a statement of what is protected.

• Interface and electrodes

  Electrodes and arrays

• Power

  Wireless power

• Telemetry

  Wireless telemetry

• Stimulation

  Stimulation · Closed loop

What the filing appears to be about, read by published rules from its title, abstract and classification codes (A61B5/388, A61B5/6868, A61N1/0529, A61N1/08, A61N1/3605). 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.

Power

A wire through the skin is a standing infection risk, and a battery sets how long a device runs and how large it is. The problem behind it: enough power through the skin without heating it, and without a connector that breaks the skin.

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 5 times in 3 offices. Each publication opens in Espacenet.

• ChinaCN117695518A15 Mar 2024
• GermanyDE102022123703A121 Mar 2024DE102022123703B412 Feb 2026 · grant
• United StatesUS20240091526A121 Mar 2024US12521549B213 Jan 2026 · grant

1. 15 Sep 2022First filingEarliest priority, at Germany. The family is counted in this year.
2. 12 Sep 2023ApplicationFiled at China.
3. 13 Sep 2023ApplicationFiled at United States.
4. 13 Sep 2023Owner recordedUnited States, on US20240091526A1: assignment; owner named: CORTEC GMBH, GERMANY.
5. 15 Mar 2024First publicationCN117695518A, China.
6. 13 Jan 2026Grant publishedUS12521549B2, United States.
7. 12 Feb 2026Grant publishedDE102022123703B4, Germany.

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

CorTec · 27 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: US20240091526A1 in Espacenet
• Counted as a BCI patent family: classified A61N1/0529 (electrodes for brain stimulation); filed by 柯泰克股份有限公司, an organisation already in the graph; describes neural hardware or methods without naming the field. How families are found and judged