US Patent Issued to Neuralink on July 21 for "Real-time neural spike detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,941, issued on July 21, was assigned to Neuralink Corp. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Real-time neural spike detection" was invented by Thong-Wei Koh (San Mateo, Calif.), Paul A. Merolla (Redwood City, Calif.), Sonal Pinto (San Bruno, Calif.) and Dongjin Seo (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for real-time detecting and classifying of a characteristic signal, such as a neural spike, and forwarding information for further processing if it meets certain criteria. A system (e.g., an on-chip system implanted in a subject's cranium) receives an electrical biological signal. The system filters the signal to generate ...