Patents by Inventor Anita Mahdevan-Jansen

Anita Mahdevan-Jansen 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: 20130245725
    Abstract: An apparatus for stimulating a neural tissue of a living subject. The neural tissue is characterized with a thermal diffusion time, Td. The apparatus includes an energy source for generating optical energy and delivering means coupled to the energy source for delivering the generated optical energy to a target neural tissue. The delivering means is configured to in operation deliver the generated optical energy with a radiant exposure that causes a thermal gradient in the target neural tissue, thereby stimulating the target neural tissue, and to deliver the optical energy in pulses with a pulse duration Tp such that Tp<Td.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Anita Mahdevan-Jansen, Jonathan D. Wells, E. Duco Jansen