Patents by Inventor Andre Machado

Andre Machado 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: 20250121190
    Abstract: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) can be used to treat many neurological conditions beyond traditional movement disorders. When patients do not suffer from traditional movement disorders, medical professionals cannot use traditional observation-based methods to configure the DBS system. A new method for selecting stimulation configurations can include recording internal data and external data as the patient performs (or attempts to perform) a motor task. The internal data is electrophysiology data recorded by a plurality of DBS electrodes, used to identify at least one of the plurality of electrodes closest to a neuronal population involved in control of the at least one motor task. The external data is electroencephalogram (EEG) data recorded by scalp electrodes, which is used to select at least one of the potential stimulation electrodes to deliver the DBS. When the electrode(s) delivering the DBS are selected, optimal parameters for the DBS are then chosen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Andre Machado, Raghavan Gopalakrishnan, Kenneth Baker
  • Patent number: 12194297
    Abstract: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) can be used to treat many neurological conditions beyond traditional movement disorders. When patients do not suffer from traditional movement disorders, medical professionals cannot use traditional observation-based methods to configure the DBS system. A new method for selecting stimulation configurations can include recording internal data and external data as the patient performs (or attempts to perform) a motor task. The internal data is electrophysiology data recorded by a plurality of DBS electrodes, used to identify at least one of the plurality of electrodes closest to a neuronal population involved in control of the at least one motor task. The external data is electroencephalogram (EEG) data recorded by scalp electrodes, which is used to select at least one of the potential stimulation electrodes to deliver the DBS. When the electrode(s) delivering the DBS are selected, optimal parameters for the DBS are then chosen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Andre Machado, Raghavan Gopalakrishnan, Kenneth Baker
  • Publication number: 20210228880
    Abstract: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) can be used to treat many neurological conditions beyond traditional movement disorders. When patients do not suffer from traditional movement disorders, medical professionals cannot use traditional observation-based methods to configure the DBS system. A new method for selecting stimulation configurations can include recording internal data and external data as the patient performs (or attempts to perform) a motor task. The internal data is electrophysiology data recorded by a plurality of DBS electrodes, used to identify at least one of the plurality of electrodes closest to a neuronal population involved in control of the at least one motor task. The external data is electroencephalogram (EEG) data recorded by scalp electrodes, which is used to select at least one of the potential stimulation electrodes to deliver the DBS. When the electrode(s) delivering the DBS are selected, optimal parameters for the DBS are then chosen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Andre Machado, Raghavan Gopalakrishnan, Kenneth Baker
  • Patent number: 9539425
    Abstract: A system for treating medical conditions by neuromodulation of one or more target sites in the nervous system. In certain embodiments, at least one of the target sites is the medial thalamic region, including the intralaminar nucleus and the adjacent white and grey matter. In certain embodiments, where there is more than one target site, the other target sites is elsewhere in the nervous system, including the globus pallidus interna, subthalamic nucleus, corpus callosum, cerebellum, cerebral cortex (including the premotor cortex, motor cortex, and sensory cortex), ventral striatum, lateral thalamus, substantia nigra, and pedunculopontine nuclei. The medical conditions include movement disorders or improvement of movement function, stroke, neuropsychiatric or neuropsychologic disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, and pain. Methods for treating medical conditions by neuromodulation of the intralaminar nuclei either alone or in combination with another target site(s) is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignees: Intelect Medical, Inc., The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Rezai, Nicholas Schiff, Scott Kokones, Andre Machado, Sierra Farris
  • Patent number: 9339650
    Abstract: A method is provided for neuromodulation to treat stroke. One step of the method includes recording an input waveform from a first site in the nervous system in a source subject. The first site is healthy or at least partially functioning. Next, an output waveform is applied to a second site in the nervous system of a target subject suffering from the stoke. The second site is diseased due to the stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Ali Rezai, Andre Machado, Keith Carlton
  • Patent number: 9211408
    Abstract: A neurostimulation system can include a memory, a playback system, a stimulation electrode, and a controller. The memory can store data for first and second input waveforms. The playback system can provides first and second output waveforms, based on the first and second input waveforms in the memory, respectively, to form composite patterns of stimulation or waveforms. The first output waveform can be different than the second output waveform. The second output waveform can be periodically superimposed on the first output waveform. The controller can be in communication with the stimulation electrode. The controller can be configured to control application of the composite pattern of stimulation or waveform to a target site in a body of a subject suffering from a medical condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventor: Andre Machado
  • Patent number: 9186095
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system and method to evaluate movement disorders. A movement data aggregator can combine data from a plurality of sensors into an aggregate movement data describing multi-dimensional movement of a handheld device. A calculator to compute an indication of a movement disorder based on the movement vector data and user input data, the user input data being generated in response to physical interaction between the handheld device and a human machine interface of a computing device/machine that is separate from the handheld device. In some examples, the handheld device can communicate with computing device via a wireless interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundaton
    Inventors: Andre Machado, Jay L. Alberts, Cameron McIntyre, David Schindler
  • Patent number: 8942812
    Abstract: Neuromodulation assemblies with lead bodies having curvatures that mimic the curvatures of the splenium, trunk, genu, or rostrum of the corpus callosum. Methods of stimulating the corpus callosum and methods of securing an electrical lead in the brain are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Andre Machado, Ali R. Rezai
  • Publication number: 20140073994
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system and method to evaluate movement disorders. A movement data aggregator can combine data from a plurality of sensors into an aggregate movement data describing multi-dimensional movement of a handheld device. A calculator to compute an indication of a movement disorder based on the movement vector data and user input data, the user input data being generated in response to physical interaction between the handheld device and a human machine interface of a computing device/machine that is separate from the handheld device. In some examples, the handheld device can communicate with computing device via a wireless interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Andre Machado, Jay L. Alberts, Cameron McIntyre, David Schindler
  • Publication number: 20130338726
    Abstract: A neurostimulation system can include a memory, a playback system, a stimulation electrode, and a controller. The memory can store data for first and second input waveforms. The playback system can provides first and second output waveforms, based on the first and second input waveforms in the memory, respectively, to form composite patterns of stimulation or waveforms. The first output waveform can be different than the second output waveform. The second output waveform can be periodically superimposed on the first output waveform. The controller can be in communication with the stimulation electrode. The controller can be configured to control application of the composite pattern of stimulation or waveform to a target site in a body of a subject suffering from a medical condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Andre Machado
  • Publication number: 20130238068
    Abstract: Neuromodulation assemblies with lead bodies having curvatures that mimic the curvatures of the splenium, trunk, genu, or rostrum of the corpus callosum. Methods of stimulating the corpus callosum and methods of securing an electrical lead in the brain are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Andre MACHADO, Ali R. REZAI
  • Patent number: 8417345
    Abstract: Neuromodulation assemblies with lead bodies having curvatures that mimic the curvatures of the splenium, trunk, genu, or rostrum of the corpus callosum. Methods of stimulating the corpus callosum and methods of securing an electrical lead in the brain are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Andre Machado, Ali R. Rezai
  • Publication number: 20120136410
    Abstract: A method is provided for neuromodulation to treat stroke. One step of the method includes recording an input waveform from a first site in the nervous system in a source subject. The first site is healthy or at least partially functioning. Next, an output waveform is applied to a second site in the nervous system of a target subject suffering from the stoke. The second site is diseased due to the stroke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicants: INTELECT MEDICAL, INC., The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Ali Rezai, Andre Machado, Keith Carlton
  • Patent number: 8190263
    Abstract: Methods of treating various medical conditions by neuromodulation of target sites of a cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathway and/or a cortical-ponto-cerebellar pathway. Such medical conditions include unilateral motor deficits, movement disorders, psychiatric disorders, epilepsy, speech or cognitive deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, visual deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, learning disorders associated with hemispheric lesions, vertigo and/or dizziness, gait disturbances, hereditary/genetic disorders, congenital malformations, infectious disease, degenerative disorders, autoimmune disorders, and metabolic disorders. A method of enhancing memory, learning and/or cognitive capacity in a normal individual by stimulating a target site of a cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathway and/or a cortical-ponto-cerebellar pathway is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Andre Machado, Ali Rezai
  • Patent number: 8112154
    Abstract: Methods for neuromodulation using waveform signals. In certain embodiments, an input waveform is obtained from a signal source site in a source subject and an output waveform is applied to a target site in a target subject. The source subject is a human or animal and the signal source site is in the nervous system, including the brain. The source subject and target subject are the same subjects or different subjects. The output waveform is identical to the input waveform or derived from the input waveform. In some embodiments, the output waveform is modified in response to physiologic feedback. Also provided are systems for neuromodulation using waveform signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Ali Rezai, Andre Machado, Keith Carlton
  • Patent number: 7865237
    Abstract: Method of treating hemodynamic derangement and controlling the mobilization of splanchnic circulation. The method comprises applying a therapy signal to a celiac ganglion, a celiac plexus, a splanchnic nerve, or any combination thereof and adjusting the signal to effectuate treatment. The present invention also provides methods of treating hemodynamic derangement and controlling the mobilization of splanchnic circulation by transluminal modulation of the celiac ganglion, the celiac plexus, the splanchnic nerve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Sandra Machado, Ali Rezai, Andre Machado
  • Publication number: 20100185269
    Abstract: Neuromodulation assemblies with lead bodies having curvatures that mimic the curvatures of the splenium, trunk, genu, or rostrum of the corpus callosum. Methods of stimulating the corpus callosum and methods of securing an electrical lead in the brain are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Andre Machado, Ali R. Rezai
  • Patent number: 7725196
    Abstract: Neuromodulation assemblies with lead bodies having curvatures that mimic the curvatures of the splenium, trunk, genu, or rostrum of the corpus callosum. Methods of stimulating the corpus callosum and methods of securing an electrical lead in the brain are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Andre Machado, Ali R. Rezai
  • Patent number: 7697991
    Abstract: Methods of treating various medical conditions by neuromodulation of a target site of interhemispheric fibers. Such medical conditions include unilateral motor deficits, movement disorders, psychiatric disorders, speech or cognitive deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, visual deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, hereditary/genetic disorders, congenital malformations, infection disease, degenerative disorder, autoimmune disorders, and metabolic disorders. A method of providing recovery and rehabilitation from states of reduced consciousness by neuromodulating a target site of interhemispheric fibers is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Andre Machado, Ali R. Rezai
  • Publication number: 20100057161
    Abstract: Methods of treating various medical conditions by neuromodulation of target sites of a cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathway and/or a cortical-ponto-cerebellar pathway. Such medical conditions include unilateral motor deficits, movement disorders, psychiatric disorders, epilepsy, speech or cognitive deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, visual deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, learning disorders associated with hemispheric lesions, vertigo and/or dizziness, gait disturbances, hereditary/genetic disorders, congenital malformations, infectious disease, degenerative disorders, autoimmune disorders, and metabolic disorders. A method of enhancing memory, learning and/or cognitive capacity in a normal individual by stimulating a target site of a cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathway and/or a cortical-ponto-cerebellar pathway is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Andre Machado, Ali R. Rezai