US 12,329,968 B2
Method and system for improving provision of electrical stimulation
Brett Wingeier, San Francisco, CA (US); Shawn Razek, San Francisco, CA (US); Kevin G. Babcock, San Francisco, CA (US); Alan Fineberg, San Francisco, CA (US); Rich Lowenberg, San Francisco, CA (US); and Patrick Wolber, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Flow Neuroscience, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by Flow Neuroscience, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/501,847.
Application 17/501,847 is a continuation of application No. 16/391,569, filed on Apr. 23, 2019, granted, now 11,400,290.
Application 16/391,569 is a continuation of application No. 15/426,212, filed on Feb. 7, 2017, granted, now 10,315,033, issued on Jun. 11, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/442,350, filed on Jan. 4, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/292,511, filed on Feb. 8, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0032054 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61N 1/04 (2006.01); A61N 1/08 (2006.01); A61N 1/36 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 1/36025 (2013.01) [A61N 1/0456 (2013.01); A61N 1/0472 (2013.01); A61N 1/08 (2013.01); A61N 1/36031 (2017.08); A61N 2001/083 (2013.01); A61N 1/36034 (2017.08)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for providing electrical stimulation to a user, the system comprising:
an electrical stimulation device configured to reversibly couple a set of electrodes to a head region of the user, the electrical stimulation device operable between at least a first monitoring state and a stimulation regime having a second monitoring state, the electrical stimulation device in the first monitoring state configured to:
deliver, when the set of electrodes are in a first configuration on the head region of the user, at least one electrical pulse via the set of electrodes to the head region of the user;
receive a signal indicative of impedance associated with the at least one electrical pulse;
determine whether the impedance meets a first impedance criterion;
in response to the impedance meeting the first impedance criterion, transitioning to implementing the stimulation regime, the stimulation regime providing a stimulation session with a waveform definition to the head region of the user and implementing the second monitoring state; and
in response to the impedance not meeting the first impedance criterion, sending instructions to a controller such that the controller presents information to the user to guide the user to reposition the set of electrodes to a second configuration on the head region of the user.