Patents by Inventor Giulio Ruffini

Giulio Ruffini 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: 20220233853
    Abstract: A method for treating diagnosed or suspected tumors of a subject, comprising obtaining a target map that identifies an actual or likely location of the tumor in the subject, and providing multifocal non-invasive electrical stimulation with a duration, spatiotemporal pattern, current intensity, electrode montage, and/or regimen sufficient to do one or more of the following: (1) reduce the size of one or more tumor(s), (2) alter its/their perfusion, (3) change its/their metabolic or electrical activity, (4) change its/their functional connectivity profile, (5) slow down or stop its/their progression/spread and related symptomatology, (6) characterize one or more tumor(s) based on its/their response to noninvasive brain stimulation; possibly in conjunction with optimized anatomical changes applied to the skin or skull to better steer currents and fields into the tumor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Giulio RUFFINI, Emiliano SANTARNECCHI, Alvaro PASCUAL-LEONE
  • Publication number: 20210031034
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for treating, preventing, or slowing progression of brain diseases or disorders using targeted neurostimulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Emiliano Santarnecchi, Giulio Ruffini, Ricardo Salvador, Paul Pyzowski, Alvaro Pascual-Leone
  • Publication number: 20200129119
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for evaluating the effects of transcranial neurostimulation, including techniques for sham stimulation to provide effective subject and/or operator blinding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Giulio RUFFINI, Ricardo SALVADOR
  • Patent number: 10463855
    Abstract: A system and a method for optimizing the configuration of multisite transcranial current stimulation, including providing an electric field characteristic target map on the brain's cortex, the target map including multiple cortical targets, the multiple cortical targets are localized and/or continuously varying and spatially extended, providing a weight map on the cortical surface prioritizing the important of areas in the target map for the purposes of optimization; and calculating, based on the target and weight maps, optimal currents and optimal locations for a plurality of electrodes intended for providing transcranial current stimulation to globally stimulate at once the multiple cortical targets with excitatory, inhibitory or neutral stimulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: NEUROELECTRICS BARCELONA S.L., BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER
    Inventors: Giulio Ruffini, Oscar Ripolles Mateu, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Michael D. Fox, Pedro Michael Cavaleiro Miranda
  • Publication number: 20170340882
    Abstract: A system and a method for optimizing the configuration of multisite transcranial current stimulation, including providing an electric field characteristic target map on the brain's cortex, the target map including multiple cortical targets, the multiple cortical targets are localized and/or continuously varying and spatially extended, providing a weight map on the cortical surface prioritizing the important of areas in the target map for the purposes of optimization; and calculating, based on the target and weight maps, optimal currents and optimal locations for a plurality of electrodes intended for providing transcranial current stimulation to globally stimulate at once the multiple cortical targets with excitatory, inhibitory or neutral stimulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Giulio Ruffini, Oscar Ripolles Mateu, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Michael D. Fox, Pedro Michael Cavaleiro Miranda
  • Patent number: 9694178
    Abstract: A system and a method for optimizing the configuration of multisite transcranial current stimulation, including providing an electric field characteristic target map on the brain's cortex, the target map including multiple cortical targets, the multiple cortical targets are localized and/or continuously varying and spatially extended, providing a weight map on the cortical surface prioritizing the important of areas in the target map for the purposes of optimization; and calculating, based on the target and weight maps, optimal currents and optimal locations for a plurality of electrodes intended for providing transcranial current stimulation to globally stimulate at once the multiple cortical targets with excitatory, inhibitory or neutral stimulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: NEUROELECTRONICS BARCELONA S.L., BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER
    Inventors: Giulio Ruffini, Oscar Ripolles Mateu, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Michael D. Fox, Pedro Michael Cavaleiro Miranda
  • Publication number: 20150112403
    Abstract: A system and a method for optimizing the configuration of multisite transcranial current stimulation, including providing an electric field characteristic target map on the brain's cortex, the target map including multiple cortical targets, the multiple cortical targets are localized and/or continuously varying and spatially extended, providing a weight map on the cortical surface prioritizing the important of areas in the target map for the purposes of optimization; and calculating, based on the target and weight maps, optimal currents and optimal locations for a plurality of electrodes intended for providing transcranial current stimulation to globally stimulate at once the multiple cortical targets with excitatory, inhibitory or neutral stimulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Giulio Ruffini, Oscar Ripolles Mateu, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Michael D. Fox, Pedro Michael Cavaleiro Miranda
  • Patent number: 8660649
    Abstract: The method includes applying individual stimuli to different regions of a brain the application of specific stimulus signals to corresponding stimulation elements arranged adjacent to the regions of the brain. The method includes constructing one or more simplified models of the brain, or of one or more sectors of the brain, considering the brain or the sector thereof, as appropriate, as a non-linear coupled oscillating system, and includes determining the stimulus signals so that the latter are suitable for exciting one or more natural vibration modes of the non-linear coupled oscillating system. The system includes stimulation elements (E1, E2 . . . En) arranged adjacent to regions of a brain, and an electronic system in connection with the stimulation elements (E1, E2 . . . En) and intended for applying thereto corresponding stimulus signals and for determining same by applying the proposed method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Starlab Barcelona S.L.
    Inventors: Giulio Ruffini, Esteve Farres, Carles Grau
  • Publication number: 20110190846
    Abstract: The method includes applying individual stimuli to different regions of a brain the application of specific stimulus signals to corresponding stimulation elements arranged adjacent to the regions of the brain. The method includes constructing one or more simplified models of the brain, or of one or more sectors of the brain, considering the brain or the sector thereof, as appropriate, as a non-linear coupled oscillating system, and includes determining the stimulus signals so that the latter are suitable for exciting one or more natural vibration modes of the non-linear coupled oscillating system. The system includes stimulation elements (E1, E2 . . . En) arranged adjacent to regions of a brain, and an electronic system in connection with the stimulation elements (E1, E2 . . . En) and intended for applying thereto corresponding stimulus signals and for determining same by applying the proposed method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: STARLAB BARCELONA,SL
    Inventors: Giulio Ruffini, Esteve Farres, Carles Grau
  • Publication number: 20090024017
    Abstract: An electrophysiological sensor, weak electrical signal conditioning circuit and method for controlling the circuit as provided. The sensor includes rigid filiform conducting nanostructures connected to a conducting substrate and operable to penetrate an organic tissue. The circuit includes an instrumentation amplifier with an input connected to a first electrode in contact with a first area of a medium, and a second input; a voltage generating device connected to an electrode in contact with a second area of the medium for applying a continuous reference signal to it; a compensator, electrically insulated from the device, for compensating the direct current offsets of a weak electrical signal received by the first electrode, generating a signal with a reference voltage with a value which can be modified by a control system, and supplying it to the second input. A method is also provided for controlling the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: STARLAB BARCELONA, SL
    Inventors: Giulio Ruffini, Stephen Dunne, Esteve Farres
  • Patent number: 6549165
    Abstract: A method for performing Earth altimetry comprising the steps of: receiving by an upward-looking antenna onboard a platform above the Earth surface, direct signals having at least two different carrier frequencies transmitted by GNSS satellites in view of the upward-looking antenna, receiving by a downward-looking antenna onboard the platform signals reflected by the Earth surface and having the at least two different carrier frequencies, comparing carrier phases of the direct signals and received reflected signals, at the carrier frequencies, and determining from the phase comparisons a surface height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Agence Spatiale Europeenne
    Inventors: Manuel Martin Neira, Pablo Colmenarejo Matellano, Giulio Ruffini
  • Publication number: 20020130813
    Abstract: A method for performing Earth alimetry comprising the steps of: receiving by an upward-looking antenna onboard a platform above the Earth surface, direct signals having at least two different carrier frequencies transmitted by GNSS satellites in view of said upward-looking antenna, receiving by a downward-looking antenna onboard said platform signals reflected by the Earth surface and having said at least two different carrier frequencies, comparing carrier phases of said direct signals and received reflected signals, at said carrier frequencies, and determining from said phase comparisons a surface height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Manuel Martin Neira, Pablo Colmenarejo Matellano, Giulio Ruffini
  • Patent number: D753833
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: NEUROELECTRICS BARCELONA S.L.
    Inventors: Giulio Ruffini, Guillem Mitja, Stephen Dunne
  • Patent number: D796051
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: NEUROELECTRICS INC.
    Inventors: Giulio Ruffini, Guillem Mitja, Ana Maiques Valls
  • Patent number: D843374
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: NEUROELECTRICS INC.
    Inventors: Albert Nieto, Giulio Ruffini
  • Patent number: D864960
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: NEUROELECTRICS INC.
    Inventors: Albert Nieto, Giulio Ruffini