Patents Assigned to Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9656096
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for delivering electromagnetic signals configured specifically to accelerate the asymmetrical kinetics of the binding of intracellular ions to their respective intracellular buffers, to enhance the biochemical signaling pathways plant animal and human molecules, cells, tissues, organs, portions of entire organisms and entire organisms employ for growth, repair and maintenance. Described herein are devices and methods that utilize repetitive bursts of waveforms configured to maximize the bound concentration of intracellular ions at their associated molecular buffers to enhance the biochemical signaling pathways living systems employ for growth, repair and maintenance. For example the systems and methods described herein may drive the binding of calcium to calmodulin (CaM), thereby enhancing the CaM-dependent nitric oxide (NO)/cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) signaling pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventor: Arthur A. Pilla
  • Publication number: 20170087367
    Abstract: Electrical non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) delivers weak electrical currents to the brain via electrodes that are affixed to the scalp. NIBS can excite or inhibit the brain in areas that are impacted by that electrical current during and for a short time following stimulation. Electrical NIBS can be used to change brain structure in terms of increasing white matter integrity as measured by diffusion tensor imaging. Together the electrical NIBS can induce changes in brain structure and function. The present methods and devices are adaptable to and configurable for facilitating the enhancement of brain performance, and the treatment of neurological diseases and tissues. The present methods and devices are advantageously designed to utilize modern electrodes deployed with, inter alia, various spatial arrangements, polarities, and current strengths to target brain areas or networks to thereby enhance performance or deliver therapeutic interventions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael P. WEISEND
  • Publication number: 20160361534
    Abstract: Electrical non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) delivers weak electrical currents to the brain via electrodes that are affixed to the scalp. NIBS can excite or inhibit the brain in areas that are impacted by that electrical current during and for a short time following stimulation. Electrical NIBS can be used to change brain structure in terms of increasing white matter integrity as measured by diffusion tensor imaging. Together the electrical NIBS can induce changes in brain structure and function. The present methods and devices are adaptable to and configurable for facilitating the enhancement of brain performance, and the treatment of neurological diseases and tissues. The present methods and devices are advantageously designed to utilize modern electrodes deployed with, inter alia, various spatial arrangements, polarities, and current strengths to target brain areas or networks to thereby enhance performance or deliver therapeutic interventions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Weisend
  • Patent number: 9492679
    Abstract: Described herein are methods for modulating the susceptibility of one or more target or tissue regions, and particularly one or more brain regions, to a therapeutic agent such as a drug, immune agent, compound, radiation, etc. In particular, the methods and systems described herein may include magnetic stimulation (including transcranial magnetic stimulation) of target or non-target regions to modulate the susceptibility of the one or more target or tissue regions to a therapeutic agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: M. Bret Schneider, Michael J. Partsch
  • Patent number: 9440089
    Abstract: Described herein are methods of treating neurological injury and conditions, in particular symptoms and complications arising from or caused by a stroke. These treatment methods can include the steps of generating a pulsed electromagnetic field from a pulsed electromagnetic field source and applying the pulsed electromagnetic field in proximity to a target region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur A. Pilla, Andre' A. DiMino, Iyer Viswanathan, Diana Casper, Berish Strauch
  • Patent number: 9433797
    Abstract: Described herein are methods of treating neurological injury and conditions, in particular neurodegenerative conditions. These treatment methods can include the steps of generating a pulsed electromagnetic field from a pulsed electromagnetic field source and applying the pulsed electromagnetic field in proximity to a target region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur A. Pilla, Andre' A. DiMino, Iyer Viswanathan, Diana Casper, Berish Strauch
  • Patent number: 9427598
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include methods of treating neurological injury and conditions, in particular, traumatic brain injury and physiological responses arising from injury or conditions. These treatment methods can include the steps of generating a pulsed electromagnetic field from a pulsed electromagnetic field source and applying the pulsed electromagnetic field 1 in proximity to a target region affected by the neurological injury or condition to reduce a physiological response to the neurological injury or condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur A. Pilla, Diana Casper, Berish Strauch
  • Patent number: 9415233
    Abstract: Described herein are methods of treating neurological injury and conditions, in particular neurological pain. These treatment methods can include the steps of generating a pulsed electromagnetic field from a pulsed electromagnetic field source and applying the pulsed electromagnetic field in proximity to a target region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur A. Pilla, Andre' A. DiMino, Iyer Viswanathan, Diana Casper, Berish Strauch
  • Publication number: 20160206871
    Abstract: Electrical non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) delivers weak electrical currents to the brain via electrodes that are affixed to the scalp. NIBS can excite or inhibit the brain in areas that are impacted by that electrical current during and for a short time following stimulation. Electrical NIBS can be used to change brain structure in terms of increasing white matter integrity as measured by diffusion tensor imaging. Together the electrical NIBS can induce changes in brain structure and function. The present methods and devices are adaptable to and configurable for facilitating the enhancement of brain performance, and the treatment of neurological diseases and tissues. The present methods and devices are advantageously designed to utilize modern electrodes deployed with, inter alia, various spatial arrangements, polarities, and current strengths to target brain areas or networks to thereby enhance performance or deliver therapeutic interventions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Weisend
  • Patent number: 9381374
    Abstract: Described herein are shaped coil TMS electromagnets formed by two bent magnetic coil loops joined at a vertex having an angle between the outer coil regions of the coils that is typically less than 120 degrees (e.g., between about 45 and about 70 degrees, 60 degrees, etc.). The vertex region shaped to optimize the magnetic field projected from the TMS electromagnet. For example, the vertex region may be horizontal or vertical. In some variations the vertex region is formed by re-arranging the conductive windings forming the two coils so that they are no longer arranged in the same columnar structure that they are in the other portions of the bent magnetic coil loops. These TMS electromagnets may be well suited for use in deep-brain Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Mishelevich, M. Bret Schneider
  • Patent number: 9352167
    Abstract: Methods of stimulating a target deep brain region using multiple Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) electromagnets positioned over a predetermined cortical regions each having a first-order connection to a target deep brain region and applying TMS so that the applied TMS induces spatial summation and thereby modulation of the target deep brain region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignees: Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc., The Board of Trustees of the Leeland Stanford Junior University
    Inventor: M. Bret Schneider
  • Patent number: 9320913
    Abstract: Pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) apparatuses and methods of making and using them. In particular, described herein are two-part PEMF apparatuses that include a self-contained, lightweight, small, compact (e.g., in some variations, wearable) generator unit that is adapted to releasably and replaceably mate with an applicator unit. The generator unit typically includes a power source and a controller that generated PEMF waveforms to be applied, including the shape and timing of the PEMF waveforms. The applicator unit typically includes a radio frequency (RF) power amplifier, a loop antenna, and impedance matching circuitry for matching the impedances for the connection between the antenna loop and the RF power amplifier. Thus, the generator module may control the application of PEMF signals without requiring impedance matching between the separable generator unit and the applicator unit. The applicator unit can include a plurality of variable capacitors that can be used to tune the PEMF signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Rio Grande Neurosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Andre' A. Dimino, Matthew E. Drummer