Patent ID: 9622677
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61N

Claim:
1. A brain implant system comprising an implantable device, the implantable device comprising: a sealed housing; electronics contained within the housing and configured to receive and process signals from selected sites of a brain; an energy source contained within the housing and configured to provide energy to the electronics; and a flexible conduit in electrical communication with the electronics, said flexible conduit having a proximal end bonded together with said housing to form an integrally mounted unitary structure therewith, said flexible conduit extending from the housing and configured to contact brain tissue for communicating signals from selected sites of the brain to said electronics, wherein the electronics includes data processing circuitry configured to detect an attribute of the signals from selected sites of the brain according to at least one pre-selected criteria and to designate each occurrence of the detected attribute as a detected event, said data processing circuitry further configured to form a processed value corresponding to such detected events over a pre-selected interval of time.