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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2012
Robert Jay Greenberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Kelly Hobart Mcclure, Simi Valley, CA (US);
James Singleton Little, Saugus, CA (US);
Rongqing Dai, Valencia, CA (US);
Arup Roy, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Richard Agustin Castro, Pasadena, CA (US);
John Reinhold, Tarzana, CA (US);
Kea-tiong Tang, Temple City, CA (US);
Sumit Yadav, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Chunhong Zhou, Pasadena, CA (US);
Dao Min Zhou, Saugus, CA (US);
Pishoy Maksy, Sherman Oaks, CA (US);
Robert Jay Greenberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Kelly Hobart McClure, Simi Valley, CA (US);
James Singleton Little, Saugus, CA (US);
Rongqing Dai, Valencia, CA (US);
Arup Roy, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Richard Agustin Castro, Pasadena, CA (US);
John Reinhold, Tarzana, CA (US);
Kea-Tiong Tang, Temple City, CA (US);
Sumit Yadav, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Chunhong Zhou, Pasadena, CA (US);
Dao Min Zhou, Saugus, CA (US);
Pishoy Maksy, Sherman Oaks, CA (US);
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., Sylmar, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for controlling the stimulation of neural tissue which includes a neural stimulator, an input device for providing input to the neural stimulator for neural stimulation, at least one electrode electrically connected to and driven by the neural stimulator and suitable to stimulate neural tissue, a device capable of determining a charge per phase by calculating a discrete integral of the wave form of the input for the at least one electrode, a calculating device for comparing the charge per phase to a predetermined maximum and determining a reduced stimulation for the at least one electrode by the amount necessary not to exceed the predetermined maximum for the at least one electrode, and a current pulse generator for stimulating the neural tissue according to the reduced stimulation level.