Patents by Inventor Bernard Renault

Bernard Renault 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).

  • Patent number: 7697979
    Abstract: A method for analyzing synchronizations of the electroencephalography of an individual using a set of sensors starting from cerebral electromagnetic analysis of the individual. The method creates a database by acquisition and digitization of electrophysiological signals output from the sensors, and calculates the degree of synchronization existing between all pairs of sensors recorded in an assembly protocol, in frequency bands between 0 and 2000 Hz, to build up the database of classes each characterizing a reference state. The method further performs statistical validation of a period analyzed in real time, which assigns this period to a class in the database, and detects a specific period with a determined degree of synchronization. A device implements this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Jacques Martinerie, Michel Le Van Quyen, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Bernard Renault
  • Publication number: 20090054800
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of representing a dynamic functional image of the brain. It consists in acquiring (A) for a specific duration a plurality of electrophysiological signals {esi}1N of cerebral activity from a set of electrodes {Ei}1N placed on the scalp (S) of the subject, in locating (B) the set of neuroelectric generators {{right arrow over (g)}jk}11JK in the cerebral volume from a three-dimensional image {Ck}1K made up of successive cross-sections of the brain, and in applying the inverse problem, and within active zones that include neuroelectric generators discriminating (C) the amount of synchrony that exists between electrophysiological signal and neuroelectric generator pairs in a plurality of frequency bands, to detect groups of discriminating neural networks {RNdk}1K. The invention is useful for non-invasive study of provoked or unprovoked functional anomalies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-CNRS-
    Inventors: Jacques Martinerie, Sylvain Baillet, Line Garnero, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Michel Le Van Quyen, Bernard Renault
  • Publication number: 20060015034
    Abstract: A method for analyzing synchronizations of the electroencephalography of an individual using a set of sensors starting from cerebral electromagnetic analysis of the individual. The method creates a database by acquisition and digitization of electrophysiological signals output from the sensors, and calculates the degree of synchronization existing between all pairs of sensors recorded in an assembly protocol, in frequency bands between 0 and 2000 Hz, to build up the database of classes each characterizing a reference state. The method further performs statistical validation of a period analyzed in real time, which assigns this period to a class in the database, and detects a specific period with a determined degree of synchronization. A device implements this method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Jacques Martinerie, Michel Le Van Quyen, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Bernard Renault
  • Patent number: 5983128
    Abstract: A frame (1) with driving members (9-11) for translating and/or rotating an assembly (4) movably mounted in said frame along one of the three planes defining the space. A unit for mechanically controlling said driving members is arranged to enable the stationary patient on the movable assembly (4) to be exposed to a moving elementary stimulation having monotonic space-time characteristics with a speed- and/or acceleration-adjustable profile, by translation and/or rotation thereof along at least one of said three planes of the space. The device further includes a processing unit for digitising waves sensed by at least some of the electrodes of an electrophysiological helmet on the patient's skull, and for finding therein evoked potentials that match the profile of the elementary stimulation. Real-time data on the functioning of at least one part of the vestibular system may thus be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Pierre-Marie Baudonniere, Fran.cedilla.ois Jouen, Jean-Claude Lepecq, Bernard Renault