US Patent Issued to REVISION IMPLANT on Feb. 10 for "Flexible neural implant with improved insertion and fixation characteristics" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,563, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to REVISION IMPLANT NV (Haasrode, Belgium).

"Flexible neural implant with improved insertion and fixation characteristics" was invented by Frederik Ceyssens (Haasrode, Belgium) and Samara Frey (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substantially planar neural electrode array includes a flexible base, a connector cable attached to the base, one or more flexible shafts protruding from the base. The shafts are arranged to protrude in the same plane from the same surface of the base to form a comb-like structure. Each of the one or more shafts includes one or more electrode contacts. The el...