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US 12,502,129 · App. 18/375,201 · Granted Dec 23, 2025

Method and system for collecting and processing bioelectrical signals

Inventors: Geoffrey Ross Mackellar (Sydney, AU); Tan Le (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: Emotiv Inc.
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Patent No.
US 12,502,129
App. No.
18/375,201
Granted
Dec 23, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and system for detecting bioelectrical signals from a user, including establishing bioelectrical contact between a user and one or more sensors of a biomonitoring neuroheadset; collecting one or more reference signal datasets; collecting, at the one or more sensors, one or more bioelectrical signal datasets referenced to a combined reference signal dataset; and extracting one or more bioparameters from the one or more bioelectrical signal datasets.

Claims (18)

1 . An electroencephalogram (EEG) headset, comprising:

a first and second earpiece, each earpiece comprising:

an in-ear earbud, comprising a speaker and an EEG sensor; and

an ear hook mounted to the earbud, comprising a common mode sensor vertically arranged relative to a driven right leg electrode, wherein the ear hook is configured to bias both the common mode sensor and the driven right leg electrode against skin proximal a mastoid process of a user; and

a processing system connected to the first and second earpiece, the processing system configured to:

generate a virtual reference signal, corresponding to a virtual reference location, from signals received from the common mode sensors; and

determine a bioparameter for the user based on an EEG signal dataset received from at least one of the EEG sensor of the first earpiece or the EEG sensor of the second earpiece.

2 . The EEG headset of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first or second earpieces further comprises an accelerometer.

3 . The EEG headset of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first or second earpieces further comprises a microphone.

4 . The EEG headset of claim 1 , wherein the EEG signal dataset is referenced to the virtual reference signal.

5 . The EEG headset of claim 1 , wherein, for each earpiece, the ear hook comprises: a primary curvature forming a hook, wherein the common mode sensor and the driven right leg electrode each protrude from the primary curvature.

6 . The EEG headset of claim 1 , wherein, for each earpiece, the common mode sensor and the driven right leg electrode are configured to be positioned behind an ear flap of the user.

7 . The EEG headset of claim 1 , wherein the processing system comprises:

a first processing subsystem connected to the first earbud; and

a second processing subsystem mounted to the second earbud.

8 . The EEG headset of claim 7 , wherein one of the first or second processing subsystems comprises an averaging circuit configured to generate the virtual reference signal from the signals received from the common mode sensors in real time.

9 . The EEG headset of claim 8 , wherein the averaging circuit is configured to perform a weighted average of the signals to generate the virtual reference signal.

10 . The EEG headset of claim 1 , wherein the virtual reference location is located between the signals received from the common mode sensors in signal space.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 29, 2023
From: MACKELLAR, GEOFFREY ROSS; LE, TAN
To: EMOTIV INC.
Reel/Frame 065078/0256 →
Continuity (5)
Continuation 16390881 · Apr 22, 2019
Continuation In Part 15209582 · Jul 13, 2016
Provisional Application 62660853 · Apr 20, 2018
Provisional Application 62201256 · Aug 5, 2015
Related Publication 20240023892A1 · Jan 25, 2024
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