US Patent Issued to Neuralink on July 29 for "Neural signal compression for brain-machine interface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,863, issued on July 29, was assigned to Neuralink Corp. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Neural signal compression for brain-machine interface" was invented by Kevin Dewald (Berkeley, Calif.), Sonal Pinto (Santa Clara, Calif.), Avinash Jois (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Aram Moghaddassi (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for compressing neural signals are disclosed herein. The neural signal compression techniques can include lossless compression, lossy compression, binned spike compression, and spike-band power compression. Lossless compression can compress neural signals using a difference predictor to encode compressed neural ...