US Patent Issued to Verily Life Sciences on Dec. 9 for "Thin-film neural interfaces with stent-assisted deployment" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,096, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).

"Thin-film neural interfaces with stent-assisted deployment" was invented by Annapurna Karicherla (Cupertino, Calif.), Peng Cong (Burlingame, Calif.), Ken Rys (Winchester, Mass.) and Bo Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to thin-film lead assemblies and neural interfaces with stent-assisted deployment, and methods of microfabricating thin-film lead assemblies and neural interfaces. Particularly, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a medical device having a thin-film neural interface, a stent, and a...