Brain-computer interface system and method

Variants of the system can include: a probe and an interface device. Variants of the method can include: configuring a signal pipeline and executing the signal pipeline. In variants, the system and/or method can function to record neural signals from a variety of brain-computer interface (BCI) probe devices. In a specific example, the system and/or method can enable high bandwidth neural recording and processing for BCI experiments.

The abstract as published by the patent office, from US20260083376A1. It describes the invention; it is not a statement of what is protected.

• Interface and electrodes

  Electrodes and arrays · Optical interfaces

• Implant electronics

  Chips and on-implant computing

• Decoding

  Neural decoding

What the filing appears to be about, read by published rules from its title, abstract and classification codes (A61B2562/046, A61B5/0006, A61B5/263, A61B5/293, A61B5/37). 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.

Implant electronics

An implant has room for very little, so functions that fill a rack in the laboratory have to fit on a chip. The problem behind it: fitting channel count, computing and safety functions into a volume and a heat budget the body accepts.

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 3 times in 2 offices. Each publication opens in Espacenet.

• United StatesUS20260083376A126 Mar 2026US20260086639A126 Mar 2026
• International (PCT)a route to several countries, not a countryWO2026064733A126 Mar 2026

1. 20 Sep 2024First filingEarliest priority, at United States. The family is counted in this year.
2. 22 Sep 2025ApplicationsFiled at United States, International (PCT).
3. 26 Mar 2026First publicationUS20260083376A1, 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.

Organisation

Science Corporation · 4 families identified

• Bibliographic data, family members and office records: European Patent Office, Open Patent Services (the DOCDB and INPADOC databases), read 11 Oct 2026.
• The record itself, with its claims and description: US20260083376A1 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