ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,277, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Inner Cosmos Inc. (Scotts Valley, Calif.).
"Devices, systems and methods for cortical stimulation" was invented by Daniel W. Moran (Ballwin, Mo.), Eric Claude Leuthardt (St. Louis) and Meron Gribetz (New York City, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems including intra-calvarial implants and/or subdermal implants are capable of stimulating cortical regions and sensing and electrical signals is implanted within or on a calvarial bone of a skull. The implants have current steering capability to change the current density profiles applied to selected cortical regions underlying the implant. The...