ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,549, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CorTec GmbH (Freiburg, Germany).
"Neuroimplant with protective structure" was invented by Stefan Reich (Munich), Maurits Ortmanns (Ulm, Germany) and Martin Schuettler (Emmendingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural implant for a brain area is provided. The neural implant has at least one stimulation section for generating stimulation signals for the brain area, an electrode section with at least one electrode, which is coupled to the stimulation section via a DC connection and can be arranged in the brain area and is designed to apply the stimulation signals to the brain area, and...