Brain cooling system

US9849025B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Yale University · US
• The University Of North Carolina At Charlotte · US
• ITN ENERGY SYSTEMS, INC. · US

Inventors

• Hitten P. Zaveri · New Haven, US
• Dennis D. Spencer · Woodbridge, US
• Bharat S. Joshi · Pineville, US
• David M. Binkley · Charlotte, US
• Bruce Lanning · Littleton, US
• Mohan S. Misra · Lund, SE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 7, 2013
• Grant date: Dec 26, 2017
• Expiry date: May 2, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2007/126
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A clinical grid electrode system for seizure control through local cooling, mapping brain function and me provision of reversible functional ablation. The system includes a modular, scalable, cooling and sensing array composed of a plurality of cooling sensing elements. The system also includes a control system to which die cooling and sensing array is coupled for providing for control and monitoring of die cooling sensing elements making up the cooling and sensing array.