Patents Assigned to Axon Engineering, Inc.,
  • Device and method for production of visual sensations by optic nerve stimulation
    Patent number: 6442431
    Abstract: A method and device for producing visual sensations within blind persons includes installing a self-sizing spiral nerve cuff electrode about the optic nerve of a blind person then transmitting electrical pulses to the nerve to generate phosphenes within the patient's visual field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Axon Engineering, Inc.,
    Inventors: Claude G. Veraart, J. Thomas Mortimer