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Patent familyLikely BCI-related

Human augmentation platform using context, biosignals, and language models

Filed by Cognixion, first in 2023.

ApplicationView in Espacenet
Earliest priority
15 Jun 2023 · United States
Status
Published applications only; no grant among the members
Published in
United States · International (PCT) · European Patent Office
Registered as
Cognixion Corporation
Inventors
Ullrich, Christopher Jason · Forsland, Joseph Andreas · Cortens, Benjamin · Hagmann, Carl · Steuber, Lucas Carl · Ullrich, Christopher · and 2 more
Family
DOCDB 91856125 · 3 publications

What it concerns

There are disclosed herein systems and methods for human agency support and facilitation through an integrated use of context information, historical work product, biosensors, explicit user input and a generative AI or generalist agent. The system comprises input means, tokenization, a generative AI or generalist agent and an output stage capable of enacting agency on a user's behalf using output tokens from the language model.

The abstract as published by the patent office, from US20240419246A1. It describes the invention; it is not a statement of what is protected.

Protection themes

  • Decoding

    Speech decoding

What the filing appears to be about, read by published rules from its title, abstract and classification codes (A61N1/20, G06F3/015, G06F40/284, G10L13/08, G16H20/30). The claims define what a patent protects, and they are not read here.

Why it matters

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

The family

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

Timeline

  1. 15 Jun 2023First filingEarliest priority, at United States. The family is counted in this year.
  2. 12 Jun 2024ApplicationsFiled at International (PCT), European Patent Office.
  3. 19 Dec 2024First publicationUS20240419246A1, United States.

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.

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: US20240419246A1 in Espacenet
  • Counted as a BCI patent family: classified G06F3/015, without a brain signal in the text; filed by Cognixion Corporation, an organisation already in the graph. How families are found and judged