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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2013
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Karl Deisseroth, Stanford, CA (US);
Scott L. Delp, Stanford, CA (US);
Michael E. Llewellyn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christine A. McLeavey Payne, Palo Alto, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
A variety of methods, devices, systems and arrangements are implemented for stimulation of the peripheral nervous system. Consistent with one embodiment of the present invention, method is implemented in which light-responsive channels or pumps are engineered in a set of motor units that includes motor units of differing physical volumes. Optical stimuli are also provided to the light-responsive channels or pumps at an optical intensity that is a function of the size of motor units to be recruited. In certain implementations, the intensity of the optical stimuli is increased so as to recruit increasingly larger motor units.