Facilitating clinical treatments via Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): Key Neurotechnology Patent #21

– Illustrative image from U.S. Patent No. 6,926,660 Today we are sharing a key 2005 patent assigned to Neuronetics, Inc. (As mentioned, we are featuring a foundational Pervasive Neurotech patent a day, from older to newer by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 6,926,660: Facilitating treatment via magnetic stimulation. Assignee(s): Neuronetics, Inc. Inventor(s): Stanford W. Miller Technology Category: Transcranial Stimulation Issue Date: August 9, 2005 SharpBrains’ Take: TMS treatments procedures are more effective and efficient if targeted stimulation to the patient can be quickly and easily repeated, rather than blindly hunting for the correct location and orientation after initial dosing/ testing procedures conducted to determine the appropriate stimulation field strength and location. The ‘660 patent discloses techniques that replace previous techniques for re-positioning patients with stimulation devices by using a mechanism that considers and adjusts to the patient’s head contours and the treatment device. The fixed, wearable nature of the apparatus described in the ‘660 patent provides a relatively low cost stimulation alignment and orientation system (compared to other stimulation techniques that, for example, may involve expensive robotics). The importance of precision and targeted treatment in stimulation treatment procedures, the potentially low cost alternative to other targeted stimulation approaches and the broadly claimed inventive concept are amo...
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