System and Method for Interfacing Cellular Matter with a Machine

• US 20100022908A1
• Filed: 09/14/2009
• Published: 01/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (University of Texas System)
• Original Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (University of Texas System)
• Inventors: Cauller, Lawrence James
• Application Number:
  US12/558,734
• Publication Number:
  US 20100022908A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/544
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0219 of externally powered implanted units
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0031 Implanted circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/369 Electroencephalography [EEG] devices for psychotechnics A61B5/16
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/415 the glands, e.g. tonsils, adenoids or thymus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/418 lymph vessels, ducts or nodes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00

Abstract

A system for interfacing cellular matter with a machine comprising a transponder implantable in cellular matter and configured to detect a first signal. The system also includes a receiver external to the cellular matter and configured to receive a second signal in response to the transponder detection of the first signal. A transmitter is also included in the system to transmit a third signal to a machine in response to the receiver receipt of the second signal.

Claims

1-57. -57. (canceled)

58. A implantable transponder system comprising:

an electronic device;

a first transponder, communicably connected to said electronic device and providing transponder signals to said electronic device;

a second transponder, communicably connected to said electronic device and providing feedback signals to said electronic device subsequent to said transponder signals.

59. The system of claim 58, wherein said electronic device is a computer.

60. The system of claim 58, wherein said first transponder includes an inductance to communicate by magnetic coupling.

61. The system of claim 58, wherein said transponder signals are provided in response to biological signals.

62. The system of claim 58, wherein said feedback signals are provided in response to cellular matter signals.

63. The system of claim 58, wherein said first transponder includes an antenna to communicate by electric field coupling.

64. The system of claim 58, wherein said first transponder is coated with a bioprotectant.

65. The system of claim 58, wherein said first transponder has a volume less than one cubic millimeter.

66. The system of claim 58, further comprising a receiver, communicably connected to said first transponder and to said electronic device, wherein said receiver provides a receiver signal to said electronic device in response to receiving a transponder signal from said first transponder.

67. The system of claim 66, further comprising a transmitter, communicably connected to said receiver and to said electronic device, wherein said transmitter provides a transmitter signal to said electronic device in response to receiving a receiver signal from said receiver.

68. The system of claim 58, wherein said electronic device is a wheelchair.

69. The system of claim 58, wherein said electronic device is a telephone.

70. The system of claim 58, wherein said electronic device is an automobile.

71. The system of claim 58, wherein said electronic device is a speech synthesizer.

72. The system of claim 58, wherein said electronic device is a robotic actuator.

73. The system of claim 58, wherein said electronic device is a motor.

74. The system of claim 58, wherein said electronic device is a navigational system.

75. The system of claim 58, wherein said electronic device is a graphical display unit.

76. The system of claim 58, wherein said electronic device is a music synthesizer.

77. The system of claim 58, wherein said electronic device is a mechanized apparatus.

78. The system of claim 58, wherein said first transponder is a plurality of transponders.

79. The system of claim 58, wherein said second transponder is a plurality of transponders.

80. The system of claim 61, wherein said biological signal is a transmembrane current.