Patents by Inventor Michel Marcel Jose Decre
Michel Marcel Jose Decre 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).
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Patent number: 11524162Abstract: A method and system are provided for determining a relation between stimulation settings for a brain stimulation probe and a corresponding V-field. The brain stimulation probe comprises multiple stimulation electrodes. The V-field is an electrical field in brain tissue surrounding the stimulation electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignees: Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V., NeuroNexus Technologies Inc.Inventors: Emil Toader, Hubert Cécile François Martens, Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Franciscus Paulus Maria Budzelaar, Pieter Gerrit Blanken, David James Anderson
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Publication number: 20200353261Abstract: A method and system are provided for determining a relation between stimulation settings for a brain stimulation probe and a corresponding V-field. The brain stimulation probe comprises multiple stimulation electrodes. The V-field is an electrical field in brain tissue surrounding the stimulation electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicants: Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V., NeuroNexus Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Emil Toader, Hubert Cécile François Martens, Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Franciscus Paulus Maria Budzelaar, Pieter Gerrit Blanken, David James Anderson
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Patent number: 10758727Abstract: A method and system are provided for determining a relation between stimulation settings for a brain stimulation probe and a corresponding V-field. The brain stimulation probe comprises multiple stimulation electrodes. The V-field is an electrical field in brain tissue surrounding the stimulation electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignees: Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V., NeuroNexus Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Emil Toader, Hubert Cécile François Martens, Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Franciscus Paulus Maria Budzelaar, Pieter Gerrit Blanken, David James Anderson
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Patent number: 10524681Abstract: In one example, a medical device system for at least one of delivery of electrical stimulation pulses or sensing of physiological signals, the system including an elongated carrier; and a thin film wound around the elongated carrier, wherein the thin film includes a plurality of electrical contacts, a plurality of electrodes located distal to the plurality of electrical contacts, and a plurality of conducting tracks, each of the plurality of conducting tracks providing an electrical connection between at least one of the plurality of electrodes and one of the plurality of electrical contacts, and wherein the thin film is wound around the elongated carrier from the distal end of the elongated film to the proximal end of the elongated thin film.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V.Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Egbertus Reinier Jacobs, Johannes Wilhelmus Weekamp, Marcus Franciscus Donker
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Patent number: 10460346Abstract: The invention relates to a method of monitoring a person (101) having an interest to an object. The method comprising steps of: (210) providing a data processor (111) for obtaining interaction data related to a remote interaction between the person and at least one of a plurality of the objects (131, 132, 133), (240) using the data processor for analysis of the interaction data to identify a particular one of the objects (133), to which the person has the interest, and (250) obtaining additional data related to the particular object for informing the person about the particular object. The analysis of the interaction data may comprise a step (220) of identifying a remote location where the interest of the person is focused, and a step (230) of determining locations of the objects with respect to the remote location.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Evert Jan Van Loenen, Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis
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Publication number: 20190164192Abstract: The invention relates to a method of monitoring a person (101) having an interest to an object. The method comprising steps of: (210) providing a data processor (111) for obtaining interaction data related to a remote interaction between the person and at least one of a plurality of the objects (131, 132, 133), (240) using the data processor for analysis of the interaction data to identify a particular one of the objects (133), to which the person has the interest, and (250) obtaining additional data related to the particular object for informing the person about the particular object. The analysis of the interaction data may comprise a step (220) of identifying a remote location where the interest of the person is focused, and a step (230) of determining locations of the objects with respect to the remote location.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2019Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: MICHEL MARCEL JOSE DECRE, EVERT JAN VAN LOENEN, BARTEL MARINUS VAN DE SLUIS
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Patent number: 10220200Abstract: A device for cranial implantation includes a ferrule and a plate for placement in the ferrule. Furthermore, a neurological implant system includes a probe and a device for cranial implantation.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V.Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Johannes Cornelius Antonius Muller, Michel Gerardus Pardoel, Hubert Cecile Francois Martens
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Patent number: 9993649Abstract: The present invention relates to a system (10) for planning and/or providing a therapy for neural applications, especially a neurostimulation and/or neurorecording applications, comprising at least one lead (300), the lead (300) having a plurality of electrodes (132) being capable to provide at least one stimulation field (F; F1; F2), further comprising at least one adjustment means (400), the adjustment means (400) being configured such that at least one characteristic parameter of the stimulation field (F; F1; F2) is directly and/or indirectly adjusted in order to establish at least one stimulation field (F; F1; F2) with at least one user defined maximal stimulation field characteristic at at least one user defined radial distance away from the lead (300).Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V.Inventors: Mattias Bengt Johan Astrom, Johan Gerard Kleibeuker, Hubert Cecile François Martens, Gijs Antonius Franciscus Van Elswijk, Rutger Nijlunsing, Michel Marcel José Decré
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Publication number: 20170281947Abstract: A method and system are provided for determining a relation between stimulation settings for a brain stimulation probe and a corresponding V-field. The brain stimulation probe comprises multiple stimulation electrodes. The V-field is an electrical field in brain tissue surrounding the stimulation electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicants: Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V., NeuroNexus Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Emil Toader, Hubert Cécile François Martens, Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Franciscus Paulus Maria Budzelaar, Pieter Gerrit Blanken, David James Anderson
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Patent number: 9717912Abstract: A method and system are provided for determining a relation between stimulation settings for a brain stimulation probe and a corresponding V-field. The brain stimulation probe comprises multiple stimulation electrodes. The V-field is an electrical field in brain tissue surrounding the stimulation electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignees: MEDTRONIC BAKKEN RESEARCH CENTER B.V, NEURONEXUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Emil Toader, Hubert Cécile François Martens, Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Franciscus Paulus Maria Budzelaar, Pieter Gerrit Blanken, David James Anderson
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Patent number: 9710551Abstract: The invention relates to the field of music therapy. In particular the invention is related to a method for producing a personalized database of sounds and music tracks by filtering and combining personal and hospital databases of sounds which induces variations of the physiological state of a listener.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijndel, Armin Gerhard Kohlrausch, Werner Paulus Josephus De Bruijn, Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Thomas Falck, Andre Melon Barroso
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Patent number: 9452291Abstract: A device for planning a neuromodulation therapy, whereby the device comprises receiving means to receive brain default mode network data of a patient, template means comprising a template brain default mode network data, normalizing means being configured such that normalized patient brain default mode network data can be prepared on the basis on the received brain default mode network data and the template brain default mode network data, storage means comprising a brain default mode network database and comparison means configured such that the normalized patient brain default mode network data and the data contained in the brain default mode network database can be compared.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2013Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V.Inventors: Hubert Cécile Francois Martens, Michel Marcel José Decré
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Patent number: 9393404Abstract: A lead for use in neural stimulation comprises a core section having a proximal end and a distal end. A plurality of electrodes is coupled to the core section proximate the distal end. At least one contact is coupled to the core section proximate the proximal end. At least one thin film is wound around the core section from the proximal end to the distal end and electrically coupling the at least one contact and the plurality of electrodes. The at least one thin film forms a curved substantially planar shape in a relaxed state before being wound around the core section.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: MEDTRONIC BAKKEN RESEARCH CENTER B.V.Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Edward Willem Albert Young, Jacobus Adrianus Johanna Maria Deckers, Dirk van Pijkeren, Ke Wang, Vincent Adrianus Henneken
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Patent number: 9387318Abstract: A stimulation apparatus includes a stimulation lead (102), a multiplexer (114), a stimulation signal generator (116), and a signal detector (120). The stimulation lead (102) includes a plurality of stimulation electrodes (112) disposed in an array about a distal portion of the lead body (110). The arrangement of the electrodes (112) facilitates the controlled steering of stimulating electrical field (118) in three dimensions. Four dimensional field steering may also be provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2007Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.VInventors: Hubert Cecile Francois Martens, Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Eugenio Cantatore
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Publication number: 20160144166Abstract: A medical lead includes an elongated carrier, a thin film attached to the elongated carrier, the thin film including a plurality of electrodes, a plurality of electrical contacts, and a plurality of conducting tracks, each of the plurality of conducting tracks providing an electrical connection between at least one of the plurality of electrodes and one of the plurality of electrical contacts; and a frame element including a fixation zone for the plurality of electrical contacts of the thin film.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Michel Marcel José Decré, Johannes Wilhelmus Weekamp, Egbertus Reinier Jacobs, Johannes van Roosmalen
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Publication number: 20160143555Abstract: In one example, a medical device system for at least one of delivery of electrical stimulation pulses or sensing of physiological signals, the system including an elongated carrier; and a thin film wound around the elongated carrier, wherein the thin film includes a plurality of electrical contacts, a plurality of electrodes located distal to the plurality of electrical contacts, and a plurality of conducting tracks, each of the plurality of conducting tracks providing an electrical connection between at least one of the plurality of electrodes and one of the plurality of electrical contacts, and wherein the thin film is wound around the elongated carrier from the distal end of the elongated film to the proximal end of the elongated thin film.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Egbertus Reinier Jacobs, Johannes Wilhelmus Weekamp, Marcus Franciscus Donker
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Patent number: 9333353Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a deep brain stimulation (DBS) lead having a distal end for providing therapeutic electrical stimulation to tissue in a stimulation target area of a patient's brain, comprising an array of one or more stimulation elements and sensing elements located at the distal end of the lead. After the first implantation of the lead into the brain along a trajectory that is pre-determined by non-surgical procedures, the array of stimulation and sensing elements is capable of facilitating the location of the target area and the determination for each of the stimulation elements of the required stimulation parameters needed to provide the therapeutic stimulation to the brain tissue in the stimulation target area, without requiring any additional implantations of the lead after the first implantation.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V.Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Hubert Cecile Francois Martens
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Patent number: 9265932Abstract: A method and control system for determining and applying stimulation settings for a brain stimulation probe (10, 12) is provided. The brain stimulation probe (10, 12) comprises a plurality of stimulation electrodes (11). The method comprises for multiple stimulation electrodes (11) of the plurality of stimulation electrodes (11): applying a test current and determining a corresponding patient response, determining a volume of influence based (32, 52, 71, 91) on the test current and a position of the stimulation electrode (11), combining the volume of influence (32, 52, 71, 91) and the corresponding patient response with generalized anatomic knowledge of stimulation induced behavior for associating the volume of influence (32, 52, 71, 91) to an anatomic structure (33, 43, 53), and determining an intersection (41, 51) of the volume of influence (32, 52, 71, 91) and the associated anatomic structure (33, 43, 53).Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: MEDTRONIC BAKKEN RESEARCH CENTER B.V.Inventors: Hubert Cécile François Martens, Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Kevin Thomas Dolan
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Publication number: 20160045748Abstract: The present invention relates to a system (10) for planning and/or providing a therapy for neural applications, especially a neurostimulation and/or neurorecording applications, comprising at least one lead (300), the lead (300) having a plurality of electrodes (132) being capable to provide at least one stimulation field (F; F1; F2), further comprising at least one adjustment means (400), the adjustment means (400) being configured such that at least one characteristic parameter of the stimulation field (F; F1; F2) is directly and/or indirectly adjusted in order to establish at least one stimulation field (F; F1; F2) with at least one user defined maximal stimulation field characteristic at at least one user defined radial distance away from the lead (300).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2014Publication date: February 18, 2016Inventors: Mattias Bengt Johan Astrom, Johan Gerard Kleibeuker, Hubert Cecile François Martens, Gijs Antonius Franciscus Van Elswijk, Rutger Nijlunsing, Michel Marcel José Decré
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Patent number: 9242086Abstract: The invention relates a system (302) for medical stimulation. The system (302) comprises an implantable probe (304) bifurcated into a primary branch (306) and a secondary branch (308) at a bifurcation (310), wherein the probe is provided at its distal end (112, 312) with an electrode (114) for delivering electrical stimulation to tissue. Herein, the primary branch (306) is configured for at least temporarily mechanically co-operating with a guide wire (316) configured for guiding the probe (304) into said tissue whereas the secondary branch (308) is configured for electrically connecting said electrode to a device for generating the electrical stimulation.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: MEDTRONIC BAKKEN RESEARCH CENTER B.V.Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Michel Gerardus Pardoel