Patent ID: 11918826
Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 7:
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
providing the pulsed electrical current to the OLEDs according to a plurality of stimulation patterns, each stimulation pattern of said plurality defined by one or both of: corresponding amount of current provided to each OLED of the array of LEDs or corresponding temporal illumination patterns of each OLED of the array of OLEDs; and
determining, using values of the HRV signal generated while operating the OLED array according to each of the plurality of stimulation patterns, whether one or more simulation patterns are effective patterns for stimulating the optogenetic vagus nerve; and
wherein the OLED array includes two or more individually addressable portions.