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Systems and methods for self-calibrating neural decoding

Filed by Precision Neuroscience, first in 2022.

Granted · USView in Espacenet
Earliest priority
20 Oct 2022 · United States
Status
A grant was published in United States, first on 20 Jan 2026
Published in
United States · Australia · European Patent Office
Registered as
PRECISION NEUROSCIENCE CORPORATION
Inventors
Rapoport, Benjamin I. · Mermel, Craig H. · Trietsch, Daniel · Ho, Elton · Takahashi, Kazutaka
Family
DOCDB 98430393 · 5 publications

What it concerns

Systems and methods related to recalibrating neural devices based on external sensory information are disclosed. The systems can include a neural device configured to sense data associated with the subject or receive control input, a sensor communicably coupled to the external device, the sensor configured to detect a state associated with the subject, and an external device communicably coupled to the neural device and the sensor. The external device can recalibrate a neural decoding model based on the state detected via the sensor, wherein the neural decoding model correlates the data received from the neural device with a corresponding thought or action performed by the subject.

The abstract as published by the patent office, from US20250130641A1. It describes the invention; it is not a statement of what is protected.

Protection themes

  • Decoding

    Neural decoding

  • Application

    BCI software

What the filing appears to be about, read by published rules from its title, abstract and classification codes (G06F3/015). 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.
Application
A decoded signal is useful only when it operates something a person wants to use, every day, without an engineer in the room. The problem behind it: dependable everyday use outside the laboratory, with set-up a user or carer can manage.

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.

Timeline

  1. 20 Oct 2022First filingEarliest priority, at United States. The family is counted in this year.
  2. 20 Oct 2023ApplicationsFiled at United States, European Patent Office.
  3. 12 Dec 2024Owner recordedUnited States, on US20250130641A1: assignment; owner named: PRECISION NEUROSCIENCE CORPORATION, NEW YORK.
  4. 24 Apr 2025First publicationUS20250130641A1, United States.
  5. 8 Dec 2025ApplicationFiled at United States.
  6. 20 Jan 2026Grant publishedUS12530080B2, 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: US20250130641A1 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 PRECISION NEUROSCIENCE 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