US 11,998,350 B2
Functional EEG montage for cognitive skill development
Christopher James Aiston, Mont Vernon, NH (US); Wayne R. Boucher, Manchester, NH (US); Robert Andrew Charles, New Boston, NH (US); Brendan Patrick Collins, Manchester, NH (US); Daniel Goodwin, Derry, NH (US); Michael Thomas Herda, Boxford, MA (US); Adam Jacobs, Hollis, NH (US); Kee Sook Jeon, Warwick, RI (US); Daniel Patrick O′Sullivan, Mont Vernon, NH (US); James M. Sellers, Eliot, ME (US); John Richard Shambroom, Framingham, MA (US); Joseph St. Onge, Raymond, NH (US); and Drew Sunstein, Exeter, NH (US)
Assigned to Thynk, Inc., Windermere, FL (US)
Appl. No. 15/579,736
Filed by Thynk, Inc., Windermere, FL (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 8, 2016, PCT No. PCT/US2016/036338
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 5, 2017,
PCT Pub. No. WO2016/200871, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 15, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/172,601, filed on Jun. 8, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2018/0279944 A1, Oct. 4, 2018
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/16 (2006.01); G09B 19/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/486 (2013.01) [A61B 5/168 (2013.01); A61B 5/6803 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0214 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0215 (2017.08); G09B 19/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A headset comprising:
(i) a front portion comprising a first end, a second end, a sensing bar, and a locator bar, wherein the sensing bar and the locator bar are joined at the first end and the second end of the front portion and comprising a space below the sensing bar and above the locator bar between the first end and the second end, and wherein:
(a) the sensing bar is shaped and configured to contact the forehead of a user wearing the headset and comprises a first electrical sensor positioned to contact the forehead of the user at about position AF3, the first electrical sensor comprising one or more electrodes, and a second electrical sensor positioned to contact the forehead of the user at about position AF4, the second electrical sensor comprising one or more electrodes, and
(b) the locator bar is shaped and configured to rest upon the brow of the user to aid the user in positioning the first electrical sensor at about position AF3 and position the second electrical sensor at about position AF4; and
(ii) a first side portion and a second side portion, the first side portion joined to the first end of the front portion and the second side portion joined to the second end of the front portion, wherein the first side portion, the second side portion, and the front portion, together, are shaped and configured to grip the head of the user, and
wherein the first side portion is rotatably coupled to the first end of the front portion and the second side portion is rotatably coupled to the second end of the front portion to permit the first side portion and the second side portion to fold inward and reduce the size of the headset when not in use.