Patent application number | Description | Published |
20150343196 | Dual-Purpose Sleep-Wearable Headgear for Monitoring and Stimulating the Brain of a Sleeping Person - A dual purpose sleep wearable headgear for both monitoring and stimulating the brain of a sleeping person is disclosed that provides a simple to use and safe platform for wearing consumer-type dual use brain stimulation and monitoring devices during sleep. The headgear enables a user to sleep comfortably while wearing the electronics and related electrodes needed for both EEG monitoring and transcranial electrical stimulation. The headgear can accept and support a miniaturized dual use monitoring/stimulation device on the forehead or the top of the head, where the bulk of the monitoring/stimulation device will not interfere with the user's sleeping position. The headgear disclosed takes the guesswork out of electrode placement, because the electrodes are prepositioned or are easily adjustable according to a predetermined pattern of electrode placement, and are appropriately sized so as to allow comfortable transcranial stimulation without producing skin irritation, and without awakening the user. | 12-03-2015 |
20150365507 | HIGH-DATA-RATE LOW-CURRENT CONSUMPTION EASY-TO-IMPLEMENT MINIATURIZED WIRELESS MICRO-USB DONGLE - A dongle is provided that can be plugged into the micro-USB port of a mobile device that supports USB host mode. The dongle provides control of the radio circuitry housed within the dongle to applications running on a smartphone. The dongle is highly miniaturized, providing a small form factor that is useful to hardware manufacturers that want to move away from using Bluetooth, while enhancing aesthetics and practicality. The dongle enables high data rate devices such as medical, diagnostic, and physiological sensing devices, to realize significant energy savings, facilitating greater miniaturization, and increased consumer adoption. Also, the dongle allows manufacturers of these types of devices to avoid dealing with the overhead and complexity of large-scale mesh networking imposed by protocols governed by large consortiums, such as Bluetooth. | 12-17-2015 |
20150374255 | Adhesive-Mountable Head-Wearable EEG Apparatus - An adhesive-mountable head-wearable EEG apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an EEG sensor for acquiring an EEG signal of a wearer, a central processing unit for receiving the EEG signal, a small circuit board including the EEG sensor and the central processing unit, and a compact enclosing shell for enclosing the small circuit board, the EEG sensor, and the central processing unit. An adhesive electrode assembly attaches to the compact enclosing shell, or to the small circuit board within the enclosing shell, via snaps or magnets. The adhesive electrode assembly includes two or more gel electrodes for acquiring an EEG signal, and for adhering to the forehead so as to wearably support the EEG apparatus on the forehead. The compact enclosing shell includes chamfered edges, and is sized so as to reduce lateral forces on the compact shell that would tend to detach the EEG apparatus from the wearer's forehead. | 12-31-2015 |