Patent familyBCI, high confidence
System and method for a brain-computer interface
Filed by Science Corporation, first in 2024.
- Earliest priority
- 29 Mar 2024 · United States
- Status
- A grant was published in United States, first on 11 Nov 2025
- Published in
- United States · International (PCT) · Australia
- Inventors
- Zhou, Emma · Sanborn, Sophia · Hodak, Max
- Family
- DOCDB 97177202 · 5 publications
What it concerns
The method can include: recording a neural state, determining a latent array, and determining an output based on the latent array. In variants, the method can function to enable a subject to use neural signals to navigate within a high-dimensional concept space to control an output (e.g., image generation, motor control, communication, etc.).
The abstract as published by the patent office, from US20250306680A1. It describes the invention; it is not a statement of what is protected.
Protection themes
Interface and electrodes
Electrodes and arrays
Telemetry
Wireless telemetry
Decoding
Neural decoding
What the filing appears to be about, read by published rules from its title, abstract and classification codes (G06F3/015, G06F3/14). The claims define what a patent protects, and they are not read here.
Why it matters
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 5 times in 3 offices. Each publication opens in Espacenet.
- United StatesUS20250306680A12 Oct 2025US12468390B211 Nov 2025 · grantUS20260044212A112 Feb 2026
- International (PCT)a route to several countries, not a countryWO2025208154A12 Oct 2025
- AustraliaAU2025247213A117 Sep 2026
Timeline
- 29 Mar 2024First filingEarliest priority, at United States. The family is counted in this year.
- 31 Mar 2025ApplicationsFiled at United States, International (PCT), Australia.
- 7 Aug 2025Owner recordedUnited States, on US20250306680A1: assignment; owner named: SCIENCE CORPORATION, CALIFORNIA.
- 2 Oct 2025First publicationUS20250306680A1, United States.
- 15 Oct 2025ApplicationFiled at United States.
- 11 Nov 2025Grant publishedUS12468390B2, 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: US20250306680A1 in Espacenet
- Counted as a BCI patent family: title or abstract names the field; classified G06F3/015 (input arrangements based on nervous-system activity); filed by Science Corporation, an organisation already in the graph; cites a family already accepted. How families are found and judged