High density epidural stimulation for facilitation of locomotion, posture, voluntary movement, and recovery of autonomic, sexual, vasomotor, and cognitive function after neurological injury

US9907958B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• The Regents of the University of California · US
• CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · US
• University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Victor Reggie Edgerton · Los Angeles, US
• Roland R. Roy · Culver City, US
• Yury Gerasimenko · Los Angeles, US
• Joel W. Burdick · Pasadena, US
• Susan J. Harkema · Louisville, US
• Jonathan Hodes · Louisville, US
• Yu-Chong Tai · Pasadena, US
• Mandheerej S. Nandra · Pasadena, US
• Claudia A. Angeli · Louisville, US
• Thomas Anthony Desautels · Pasadena, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 2, 2015
• Grant date: Mar 6, 2018
• Expiry date: Sep 6, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F04C2270/0421
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Methods of enabling locomotor control, postural control, voluntary control of body movements (e.g., in non-weight bearing conditions), and/or autonomic functions in a human subject having spinal cord injury, brain injury, or neurological neuromotor disease are described.