Hybrid clustered neural interface system

US8954144B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• NeuroNexus Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• David J. Anderson · Ann Arbor, US
• Daryl R. Kipke · Dexter, US
• Jamille Farraye Hetke
• Rio J. Vetter · Ypsilanti, US
• Kc Kong · Ann Arbor, US
• John P. Seymour · Ann Arbor, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 15, 2012
• Grant date: Feb 10, 2015
• Expiry date: Feb 18, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49147
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An apparatus comprises a flexible substrate. The flexible substrate includes a first substrate surface, a surface electrode array that includes a plurality of electrodes disposed on the first substrate surface, one or more flexible neural probes substantially orthogonal to the first substrate surface and insertable into biological tissue, and a penetrating electrode array that includes a plurality of electrodes formed on the one or more flexible neural probes, wherein electrodes of the surface electrode array and the penetrating electrode array are configured to one or both of receive a neural signal from a neural signal source and provide electrical stimulation energy to a neural stimulation target.