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Neural interface system and method

Filed by Science Corporation, first in 2024.

Granted · USView in Espacenet
Earliest priority
1 Apr 2024 · United States
Status
A grant was published in United States, first on 2 Dec 2025
Published in
United States · International (PCT) · Australia
Inventors
Eminoglu, Selim · Rothman, Max
Family
DOCDB 97177208 · 8 publications

What it concerns

The system (e.g., neural interface system) can include: a neural interface module (e.g., a recording module), a digital controller module, an analog drive module, and/or an electrode multiplexer. In variants, the system can function to read signals from neurons (e.g., reading electrical signals via electrodes) and/or transmit signals to neurons (e.g., transmitting electrical signals via electrodes).

The abstract as published by the patent office, from US20250302358A1. It describes the invention; it is not a statement of what is protected.

Protection themes

  • Interface and electrodes

    Electrodes and arrays

  • Signal acquisition

    Signal acquisition

  • Telemetry

    Wireless telemetry

What the filing appears to be about, read by published rules from its title, abstract and classification codes (A61B2562/046, A61B5/24, A61B5/294, A61B5/30, A61B5/6868). 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.
Signal acquisition
Neural signals are microvolts. They have to be amplified and digitised on many channels at once, inside a power budget that must not warm the tissue. The problem behind it: low noise on hundreds or thousands of channels at milliwatts.
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

The family

One invention, published 8 times in 3 offices. Each publication opens in Espacenet.

Timeline

  1. 1 Apr 2024First filingEarliest priority, at United States. The family is counted in this year.
  2. 1 Apr 2025ApplicationsFiled at United States, International (PCT), Australia.
  3. 17 Apr 2025Owner recordedUnited States, on US20250302358A1: assignment; owner named: SCIENCE CORPORATION, CALIFORNIA.
  4. 2 Oct 2025First publicationUS20250302358A1, United States.
  5. 30 Oct 2025ApplicationFiled at United States.
  6. 5 Mar 2026ApplicationFiled at United States.
  7. 31 Mar 2026Grant publishedUS12588852B2, 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: US20250302358A1 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 Science Corporation, 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