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EP3068349 - SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACES AND NEURAL PROSTHETIC SYSTEMS [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 16.05.2024 Database last updated on 14.06.2024
Former	Examination is in progress Status updated on 13.04.2024
Former	Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 10.12.2023
Former	Examination is in progress Status updated on 06.11.2020
Former	Request for examination was made Status updated on 22.06.2020
Former	Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 17.10.2019
Former	Request for examination was made Status updated on 06.08.2018
Most recent event Tooltip	16.05.2024	New entry: Communication of intention to grant a patent
Applicant(s)	For all designated states HRL LABORATORIES, LLC 3011 Malibu Canyon Road Malibu, CA 90265 / US
	[2016/38]
Inventor(s)	01 / DE SAPIO, Vincent 4500 Sevenoaks Court Westlake Village, CA 91361 / US
	02 / SRINIVASA, Narayan 386 Sprucewood Avenue Oak Park, CA 91377 / US
	[2016/38]
Representative(s)	Boult Wade Tennant LLP Salisbury Square House 8 Salisbury Square London EC4Y 8AP / GB
	[N/P]
Former [2016/38]	Boult Wade Tennant Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB
Application number, filing date	14861977.8	13.11.2014
	[2016/38]
	WO2014US65537
Priority number, date	US201361903538P	13.11.2013 Original published format: US 201361903538 P
	[2016/38]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO2015073713
	Date:	21.05.2015
	Language:	EN
	[2015/20]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP3068349
	Date:	21.09.2016
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 21.05.2015 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2016/38]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	KR	21.05.2015
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	15.11.2017
Classification	IPC:	A61F2/68, A61F2/72, G06N3/04, A61F2/70, A61F2/76	[2017/50]
	CPC:	A61F2/72 (EP,US); A61F2002/701 (EP); A61F2002/7615 (EP); G06N3/049 (EP)
	Former IPC [2016/38]	A61F2/68, A61F2/72
Designated contracting states	AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2016/38]
Title	German:	SYSTEM ZUR STEUERUNG VON GEHIRN-MASCHINE-SCHNITTSTELLEN UND NEURALE PROTHESENSYSTEME	[2016/38]
	English:	SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACES AND NEURAL PROSTHETIC SYSTEMS	[2016/38]
	French:	SYSTÈME DE COMMANDE D'INTERFACES MACHINE-CERVEAU ET SYSTÈMES DE PROTHÈSE NERVEUSE	[2016/38]
Entry into regional phase	09.06.2016	National basic fee paid
	09.06.2016	Search fee paid
	09.06.2016	Designation fee(s) paid
	09.06.2016	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	09.06.2016	Examination requested [2016/38]
	15.10.2018	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	18.10.2019	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	19.06.2020	Disapproval of the communication of intention to grant the patent by the applicant or resumption of examination proceedings by the EPO
	09.11.2020	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	14.06.2021	Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time
	24.08.2021	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	11.12.2023	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	11.04.2024	Disapproval of the communication of intention to grant the patent by the applicant or resumption of examination proceedings by the EPO
	17.05.2024	Communication of intention to grant the patent
Request for further processing for:	The application is deemed to be withdrawn due to failure to reply to the examination report
	24.08.2021	Request for further processing filed
	24.08.2021	Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted
	31.08.2021	Decision despatched
	The application is deemed to be withdrawn due to failure to fulfill actions required for granting the patent
	19.06.2020	Request for further processing filed
	19.06.2020	Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted
	26.06.2020	Decision despatched
	The application is deemed to be withdrawn due to failure to reply to the Extended European Search Report/Written Opinion of the International Searching Authority/International Preliminary Examination Report/Supplementary international search report/Supplementary European search report
	15.10.2018	Request for further processing filed
	15.10.2018	Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted
	26.10.2018	Decision despatched
	21.04.2017	Request for further processing filed
	21.04.2017	Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted
	12.05.2017	Decision despatched
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	28.11.2016	Renewal fee patent year 03
	27.11.2017	Renewal fee patent year 04
	27.11.2018	Renewal fee patent year 05
	27.11.2019	Renewal fee patent year 06
	27.11.2020	Renewal fee patent year 07
	29.11.2021	Renewal fee patent year 08
	28.11.2022	Renewal fee patent year 09
	27.11.2023	Renewal fee patent year 10
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Documents cited:	Search	[I] - YANAGISAWA, T. ET AL., "Real-time control of a prosthetic hand using human electrocorticography signals: technical note", JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY, (2011), vol. 114, pages 1715 - 1722, XP002774292 [I] 1-15 * pages 1715-1722 - especially sections "Data Collection and Preprocessing", "Decoding Algorithms" and "Real-Time Decoding and Prosthetic Hand Control" * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/2011.1.JNS101421
		[A] - VINCENT DE SAPIO ET AL, "Least action principles and their application to constrained and task-level problems in robotics and biomechanics", MULTIBODY SYSTEM DYNAMICS, KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, DO, (20071120), vol. 19, no. 3, ISSN 1573-272X, pages 303 - 322, XP019578810 [A] 1-15 * the whole document *
	International search	[X] - YANAGISAWA, T. ET AL., "Real-time control of a prosthetic hand using human electrocorticography signals: technical note", JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY, (2011), vol. 114, pages 1715 - 1722, XP002774292 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/2011.1.JNS101421
		[Y] - DE SAPIO, V. ET AL., "Least action principles and their application to constrained and task-level problems in robotics and biomechanics", MULTIBODY SYSTEM DYNAMICS, (2008), vol. 19, pages 303 - 322, XP019578810
		[A] - DETHIER, J. ET AL., "A brain-machine interface operating with a real- time spiking neural network control algorithm", ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS, (2011), pages 2213 - 2221, XP055343604
		[A] - CHESTEK, C. A. ET AL., "Neural prosthetic systems: current problems and future directions", 31ST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE EMBS, (2009), pages 3369 - 3375, XP031881350 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332822
		[A] - KIM, H. K. ET AL., "Continuous shared control for stabilizing reaching and grasping with brain-machine interfaces", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, (2006), vol. 53, pages 1164 - 1173, XP055343606 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2006.870235

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