Patents by Inventor Catherine Pudda

Catherine Pudda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20110184269
    Abstract: An implantable probe for acquiring neural signals or for electrically stimulating neurons, the probe comprising: a support (ES) of flexible polymer material; an inorganic substrate (S?) fastened to said support and having thickness that is sufficiently small to present flexibility comparable to that of the support; at least one electrode (EL) carried by said substrate; and a layer (NC) of conductive material deposited by high temperature growth on a surface of said or each electrode and suitable for improving at least one property thereof selected from: electrical properties; biocompatibility properties; and biostability properties. A method of fabricating such a probe, including making electrodes on said inorganic substrate, thinning it, depositing said conductive layer thereon by growth at high temperature, and subsequently transferring the thinned substrate carrying the coated electrodes onto the support of flexible polymer material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Fabien Sauter-Starace, Bibari Olivier, Chabrol Claude, Catherine Pudda
  • Patent number: 6110802
    Abstract: Process for producing a structure having a low dislocation density comprising an oxide layer buried in a semiconductor substrate. This process for producing an epitaxied structure with a low dislocation density has the structure incorporating an oxide layer (6) in a substrate (4) made from a semiconductor material and successively involves at least one implantation of oxygen ions in the substrate (4), at least one first conditioning heat treatment of the substrate, an epitaxy of a layer (14) of a semiconductor material on the substrate and a second heat treatment for eliminating dislocations (8) from the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Bernard Aspar, Jacques Margail, Catherine Pudda