Patent ID: 11931521
Assignee: VITAL NEURO, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 15:
16. An apparatus comprising distributed feedback-circuitry that uses operant conditioning to train a subject to achieve a target state of consciousness, said distributed feedback-circuitry comprising remote circuitry that comprises a feature-extraction circuit and a controller, wherein said feature-extraction circuit receives a real-time electroencephalogram and information indicative of a target state from said subject and generates a measured feature-set and a target feature-set therefrom, wherein said controller causes transmission of a conditioning stimulus to be listened to by said subject, said conditioning stimulus being one that causes said measured feature-set to be driven towards said target feature-set, wherein said controller causes said conditioning stimulus to comprise a conditioning-audio stimulus that transitions between being a base-audio stimulus with no reward stimulus and being a base-audio stimulus that has been operated on to incorporate a reward stimulus, wherein said controller causes said transition based on progress made in causing said measured feature-set to conform to said target feature-set, and wherein said remote circuitry further comprises a conditioner that generates said reward stimulus in response to a signal from said controller, wherein said base-audio stimulus is defined by a tonic frequency, and wherein said controller causes said conditioning-audio stimulus to transition between being said base-audio stimulus and a combination of said base-audio stimulus and tones having frequencies that are that are rational multiples of said tonic frequency.