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: 9180299Abstract: 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; each of the one or more stimulation elements is capable of providing electrical stimulation to the brain tissue in the target area; and each of the one or more sensing elements is capable of detecting electrical signals produced by nerve cells within the brain; wherein 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 requiriType: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Medtronic Bakken Research Center B. V.Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Hubert Cécile François Martens
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Patent number: 9144681Abstract: A neuromimetic device includes a feedforward pathway and a feedback pathway. The device operates in parallel with a suspect neural region, coupled between regions afferent and efferent to the suspect region. The device can be trained to mimic the suspect region while the region is still considered functional; and then replace the region once the region is considered dysfunctional. The device may be particularly useful in treating neuromotor issues such as Parkinson's disease.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V.Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Hubert Cecile Francois Martens, Youri Victorovitch Ponomarev
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Patent number: 9095698Abstract: System for providing a stimulus comprising a probe with multiple electrodes each capable of providing a particular current to surrounding tissue a generator for providing to each of the electrodes the particular current a controller for controlling the generator to provide current to the electrodes to achieve a desired electrical field around the probe.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2010Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V.Inventors: Hubert Cécile François Martens, Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Emil-Codrut Toader
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Publication number: 20150088230Abstract: 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: December 1, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicants: NEURO NEXUS TECHNOLOGIES INC., SAPIENS STEERING BRAIN STIMULATION B.V.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: 20150080987Abstract: A neuromimetic device includes a feedforward pathway and a feedback pathway. The device operates in parallel with a suspect neural region, coupled between regions afferent and efferent to the suspect region. The device can be trained to mimic the suspect region while the region is still considered functional; and then replace the region once the region is considered dysfunctional. The device may be particularly useful in treating neuromotor issues such as Parkinson's disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation B.V.Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Hubert Cecile Francois Martens, Youri Victorovitch Ponomarev
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Publication number: 20150045851Abstract: The present invention relates to 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 data base and comparison means configured such that the normalized patient brain default mode network data and the data contained in the brain default mode network data base can be comparedType: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Hubert Cécile Francois Martens, Michel Marcel José Decré
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Patent number: 8948843Abstract: The invention relates to a probe (10) for an implantable medical device. The probe has a distal end (2) and a proximal end (3), and the probe (10) moreover comprises an electrode (1) at the distal end. The electrode is connected to a wire (5) extending from the electrode to the proximal end of the probe, where the resistivity of the wire is non-uniform along the length of the wire. The wire may have high resistivity at the distal end of the probe and low resistivity wires elsewhere. The high resistivity wires reduce the peak current density in the tissue of an implanted device, and thus prevents destructive heating and/or undesired stimulation of tissue during MRI examination. This highly contributes to MR safety which is a highly desired feature for these implantable electrical stimulation devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2009Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation B.V.Inventors: Dirk Willem Harberts, Ke Wang, Michel Marcel Jose Decre
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Patent number: 8929992Abstract: A method and a control system (20) are provided for determining a relation between stimulation settings for a brain stimulation probe (10) and a corresponding V-field. The brain stimulation probe (10) comprises multiple stimulation electrodes (11). The V-field is an electrical field in brain tissue surrounding the stimulation electrodes (11).Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignees: Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation B.V., NeuroNexus Technologies Inc.Inventors: Emil Toader, Hubert Cécile François Martens, Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Franciscus Paulus Maria Budzelaar, Pieter Gerrit Blanken, David James Anderson
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Publication number: 20140343621Abstract: The present invention relates to a probe system for brain applications, especially for neurostimulation and/or neurorecording, comprising at least one lead for brain applications with a first number of stimulation and/or recording electrodes, the lead being connectable to a low-count connector element or having a low-count connector element, whereby the low-count connector element has a second number of connector contacts, whereby the second number of connector contacts is lower than the first number of the electrodes, whereby the low-count connector element is configured such that the low-count connector element can be directly and/or indirectly connected to at least one pulse generator, whereby the probe system further comprises a power-management unit, a controller unit, a communication unit, and a switching unit. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a deep brain stimulation system, a low-count connector element, and to a method of manufacturing a probe system for a deep brain stimulation system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Michel Marcel José Decré, Jeroen Jacob Arnold Tol, Hubert Cécile Francois Martens
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Publication number: 20140288615Abstract: 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; each of the one or more stimulation elements is capable of providing electrical stimulation to the brain tissue in the target area; and each of the one or more sensing elements is capable of detecting electrical signals produced by nerve cells within the brain; wherein 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 requiriType: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation B.V.Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Hubert Cecile Francois Martens
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Patent number: 8818490Abstract: The invention relates to a preparing apparatus for preparing an influencing procedure for influencing a subject. The preparing apparatus (1) comprises a subject coil (3) for generating a magnetic resonance image of he subject (7), an instrument guide device (5) for guiding an instrument (6) for influencing the subject (7), a marker (9) being visible in the magnetic resonance image, and an attaching element for attaching the instrument guide device (5) to the subject coil (3) in a known spatial relationship. Since the spatial relationship between the instrument guide device (5) and the subject coil (3) is known, if they are attached to each other, a time consuming registration procedure for registering an influence trajectory, which has been planned based on the magnetic resonance image, and the instrument guide device (5) can be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Hubert Cecile Francois Martens, Judith Margeet Rensen, Michel Marcel Jose Decre
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Publication number: 20140181127Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Nicolle Hanneke Van Schijdel, Armin Gerhard Kohlrausch, Werner Paulus Josephus De Bruijn, Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Thomas Falck, Andre Melon Barroso
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Publication number: 20140128937Abstract: An active electronics module for a system for brain applications comprises a lead having a plurality of electrodes at its distal end, at least one main module, and an active electronics module configured such that the active electronics module is connectable or connected to the least one main module on one side and the lead on the other side. The active electronics module includes at least one switch configured such that at least one of the electrodes of the lead can be connected with one or more inputs and/or outputs of the main module.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: SAPIENS STEERING BRAIN STIMULATION B.V.Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Jeroen Jacob Arnold Tol, Hubert Cécile François Martens, Franciscus Paulus Maria Budzelaar
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Patent number: 8694105Abstract: The invention relates to a neurostimulation system, particularly for deep brain stimulation (DBS), comprising a spatial array (130) of stimulation electrodes (132) and an associated controller (110). The controller (110) is adapted to sequentially supply electrical pulses to different subsets of the stimulation electrodes (132). Preferably, the controller (110) comprises a single pulse-generator (112) and a multiplexing unit (111) for distributing the pulses to different stimulation electrodes. The stimulation electrodes (132) may preferably be arranged on probes (131).Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation B.V.Inventors: Hubert Cecile Francois Martens, Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Eugenio Cantatore
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Patent number: 8688230Abstract: A system (102) comprising a box (104) for implanting in a mammal body part (106), which box is provided with a first electrical contact (110, 121, 114, 116, 118, 120), and a module (108) for accommodating in the box, which module is provided with a second electrical contact (122, 124, 126) for cooperation with said first electrical contact. The first electrical contact and the second electrical contact are mutually movable, at least in a stationary accommodation of the module in the box, between a contact position in which said first and second electrical contacts are electrically connected, and a non-contact position in which said first and second electrical contacts are separated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2010Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation B.V.Inventors: Michel Gerardus Pardoel, Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Hubert Cécile François Martens, Franciscus Paulus Maria Budzelaar, Jozef Elisabeth Franciscus Gootzen, Jeroen Jacob Arnold Tol
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Patent number: 8568216Abstract: A pawn (10) for use on a board (21) is provided. The pawn (10) is arranged to provide a trigger signal upon a touch of a triggerable part of the pawn (10) by a user, and comprises communication means for communicating the trigger signal to a board (21). The pawn (10) comprises at least two separate triggerable sub-parts (11, 12) for, upon a touch of each respective one of the at least two separate triggerable sub-parts (11, 12) by a user, respectively providing a first and a second trigger signal. The first and the second trigger signal are mutually distinguishable. Such a pawn (10) can easily be used for activating a certain function of a set of functions. A function is selected by touching a corresponding triggerable sub-part (11, 12).Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2006Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Anthonie Hendrik Bergman, Hubertus Maria Rene Cortenraad
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Publication number: 20130282090Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation 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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Publication number: 20130035585Abstract: The invention relates to a preparing apparatus for preparing an influencing procedure for influencing a subject. The preparing apparatus (1) comprises a subject coil (3) for generating a magnetic resonance image of he subject (7), an instrument guide device (5) for guiding an instrument (6) for influencing the subject (7), a marker (9) being visible in the magnetic resonance image, and an attaching element for attaching the instrument guide device (5) to the subject coil (3) in a known spatial relationship. Since the spatial relationship between the instrument guide device (5) and the subject coil (3) is known, if they are attached to each other, a time consuming registration procedure for registering an influence trajectory, which has been planned based on the magnetic resonance image, and the instrument guide device (5) can be avoided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Hubert Cecile Francois Martens, Judith Margreet Rensen, Michel Marcel Jose Decre
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Publication number: 20130030500Abstract: A method and a control system (20) are provided for determining a relation between stimulation settings for a brain stimulation probe (10) and a corresponding V-field. The brain stimulation probe (10) comprises multiple stimulation electrodes (11). The V-field is an electrical field in brain tissue surrounding the stimulation electrodes (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicants: Neuro Nexus Technologies Inc., Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation B.V.Inventors: Emil Toader, Hubert Cécile François Martens, Michel Marcel Jose Decre, Franciscus Paulus Maria Budzelaar, Pieter Gerrit Blanken, David James Anderson
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Publication number: 20120303107Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: SAPIENS STEERING BRAIN STIMULATION B.V.Inventors: Michel Marcel Jose Decré, Michel Gerardus Pardoel