Systems for controlling one or more devices using a signal control unit

Interface systems for directing communication between an individual and a plurality of external devices using an external system control unit, where the individual has a neural interface device having an electrode component electrically coupled with a transmitter/receiver component.

The abstract as published by the patent office, from US20250085779A1. It describes the invention; it is not a statement of what is protected.

• Interface and electrodes

  Peripheral interfaces

• Decoding

  Motor decoding

What the filing appears to be about, read by published rules from its title, abstract and classification codes (G06F1/26, G06F3/015, G06F3/017). 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.

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

• United StatesUS20250085779A113 Mar 2025US12333074B217 Jun 2025 · grantUS20250335030A130 Oct 2025
• International (PCT)a route to several countries, not a countryWO2025059210A120 Mar 2025
• AustraliaAU2024341581A12 Apr 2026
• European Patent Officea route to several countries, not a countryEP4777908A122 Jul 2026

1. 11 Sep 2023First filingEarliest priority, at United States. The family is counted in this year.
2. 11 Sep 2024ApplicationsFiled at United States, International (PCT), Australia, European Patent Office.
3. 22 Oct 2024Owner recordedUnited States, on US20250085779A1: assignment; owner named: SYNCHRON AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED, DELAWARE.
4. 13 Mar 2025First publicationUS20250085779A1, United States.
5. 14 May 2025ApplicationFiled at United States.
6. 17 Jun 2025Grant publishedUS12333074B2, 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.

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: US20250085779A1 in Espacenet
• Counted as a BCI patent family: uses the field's wording; 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