IP Library Patent Application 16944963
Patent Application
App. No. 16/944,963

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEURAL STIMULATION USING SPIKE FREQUENCY MODULATION

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16/944,963
Abstract

Embodiments may comprise receiving electrical and optical signals from electrophysiological neural signals of neural tissue from at least one read modality, wherein the electrophysiological neural signals are at least one of Spike frequency modulated or Spike frequency demodulated, encoding the received electrical and optical signals using a Fundamental Code Unit, automatically generating at least one machine learning model using the Fundamental Code Unit encoded electrical and optical signals, generating at least one optical or electrical signal to be transmitted to the brain tissue using the generated at least one machine learning model, wherein the generated signals are at least one of Spike frequency modulated or Spike frequency demodulated, and transmitting the generated at least one optical or electrical signal to the neural tissue to provide electrophysiological stimulation of the neural tissue using at least one write modality.

Claims (34)

1 . A method for neural stimulation comprising:

receiving electrical and optical signals from electrophysiological neural signals of neural tissue from at least one read modality, wherein the electrophysiological neural signals are at least one of Spike frequency modulated or Spike frequency demodulated;

encoding the received electrical and optical signals using a Fundamental Code Unit;

automatically generating at least one machine learning model using the Fundamental Code Unit encoded electrical and optical signals;

generating at least one optical or electrical signal to be transmitted to the brain tissue using the generated at least one machine learning model, wherein the generated signals are at least one of Spike frequency modulated or Spike frequency demodulated; and

transmitting the generated at least one optical or electrical signal to the neural tissue to provide electrophysiological stimulation of the neural tissue using at least one write modality.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the received Spike frequency modulated signals are obtained from sensory neurons.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the generated Spike frequency modulated signals are generated using signal transform function that converts an analog stimulus on a sensory neuron into a sequence of spikes, wherein the rate of spikes per second (sps) is proportional to the intensity of the input.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the generated Spike frequency modulated signals have a rate of 0 to 100 spikes per second and an amplitude of 0 to 100 mV.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the received Spike frequency demodulated signals are obtained from motor neurons.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the generated Spike frequency demodulated signals are generated using a left rectangular numerical integration of the SFM signals for each sampling period determined by a given threshold of conversion.

7 . A system for neural stimulation comprising:

at least one read modality adapted to receive electrical and optical signals from electrophysiological neural signals of neural tissue, wherein the electrophysiological neural signals are at least one of Spike frequency modulated or Spike frequency demodulated;

at least one write modality adapted to transmit the generated at least one optical or electrical signal to the neural tissue to provide electrophysiological stimulation of the brain tissue; and

at least one computing device comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the processor to perform:

encoding the received electrical and optical signals using a Fundamental Code Unit;

automatically generating at least one machine learning model using the Fundamental Code Unit encoded electrical and optical signals; and

generating at least one optical or electrical signal to be transmitted to the neural tissue using the generated at least one machine learning model, wherein the generated signals are at least one of Spike frequency modulated or Spike frequency demodulated.

8 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the received Spike frequency modulated signals are obtained from sensory neurons.

9 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the generated Spike frequency modulated signals are generated using signal transform function that converts an analog stimulus on a sensory neuron into a sequence of spikes, wherein the rate of spikes per second (sps) is proportional to the intensity of the input.

10 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the generated Spike frequency modulated signals have a rate of 0 to 100 spikes per second and an amplitude of 0 to 100 mV.

11 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the received Spike frequency demodulated signals are obtained from motor neurons.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the generated Spike frequency demodulated signals are generated using a left rectangular numerical integration of the SFM signals for each sampling period determined by a given threshold of conversion.

13 . A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer system, to cause the computer system to perform a method of neural stimulation comprising:

receiving electrical and optical signals from electrophysiological neural signals of neural tissue from at least one read modality, wherein the electrophysiological neural signals are at least one of Spike frequency modulated or Spike frequency demodulated;

encoding the received electrical and optical signals using a Fundamental Code Unit;

automatically generating at least one machine learning model using the Fundamental Code Unit encoded electrical and optical signals;

generating at least one optical or electrical signal to be transmitted to the brain tissue using the generated at least one machine learning model, wherein the generated signals are at least one of Spike frequency modulated or Spike frequency demodulated; and

transmitting the generated at least one optical or electrical signal to the neural tissue to provide electrophysiological stimulation of the neural tissue using at least one write modality.

14 . The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the received Spike frequency modulated signals are obtained from sensory neurons.

15 . The computer program product of claim 14 , wherein the generated Spike frequency modulated signals are generated using signal transform function that converts an analog stimulus on a sensory neuron into a sequence of spikes, wherein the rate of spikes per second (sps) is proportional to the intensity of the input.

16 . The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the generated Spike frequency modulated signals have a rate of 0 to 100 spikes per second and an amplitude of 0 to 100 mV.

17 . The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the received Spike frequency demodulated signals are obtained from motor neurons.

18 . The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein the generated Spike frequency demodulated signals are generated using a left rectangular numerical integration of the SFM signals for each sampling period determined by a given threshold of conversion.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 28, 2025
From: HOWARD, NEWTON
To: GENESIS INTELLIGENCE, LLC
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