US 11,857,811 B2
Detection, localization, and/or suppression of neural activity using acoustic waves and/or ultrasound
Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, Palo Alto, CA (US); Kamyar Firouzi, Palo Alto, CA (US); and George Quintin Stedman, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US)
Filed by The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/650,209.
Application 17/650,209 is a continuation of application No. 17/269,503, granted, now 11,260,248, previously published as PCT/US2019/053097, filed on Sep. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/738,812, filed on Sep. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0152428 A1, May 19, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61N 7/00 (2006.01); G16H 20/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 7/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G10K 11/34 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 7/00 (2013.01) [A61B 5/4064 (2013.01); A61B 5/4094 (2013.01); A61B 7/001 (2013.01); A61B 8/0808 (2013.01); A61B 8/4209 (2013.01); A61B 8/485 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G10K 11/341 (2013.01); G16H 20/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); A61B 5/6803 (2013.01); A61N 2007/0026 (2013.01); A61N 2007/0052 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method of suppressing neural activity in a brain encased by a skull, the method comprising:
receiving information associated with the neural activity in the brain, the information identifying a location of the neural activity in the brain with a resolution on an order of a millimeter; and
applying, using one or more ultrasonic transducers, ultrasound energy to the location of the neural activity in the brain through the skull within a millisecond time range from one or more sensors detecting acoustic waves associated with the neural activity to thereby suppress the neural activity.