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US 12,623,047 B2Granted
Device, method, and app for facilitating sleep
AssigneeNeuroLight, Inc.
InventorAlexander Poltorak
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Abstract
A device, system, and method for facilitating a sleep cycle in a subject, comprising selecting a waveform from a plurality of waveforms derived from brainwaves of at least one sleeping donor, wherein said waveform corresponds to at least one specific stage of sleep; and stimulating the subject with at least one stimulus, wherein said at least one stimulus is at least one of an auditory stimulus and a visual stimulus modulated with the selected waveform to entrain the brain of the subject with the selected waveform to facilitate sleep in the subject.
Claims20
A system for facilitating sleep, comprising:
- a database comprising a plurality of database records, each database record being associated with a respective human sleep stage of a plurality of human sleep stages, and each database record defining a brain electrical activity waveform associated with the respective human sleep stage;
- a neurostimulator configured to stimulate a sleeping human subject with a sensory stimulus adapted to achieve brain entrainment of the sleeping human subject, and alter a human sleep stage of the sleeping human subject;
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- at least one automated processor, configured to:
- determine a current human sleep stage of the sleeping human subject;
- monitor a progress of the sleeping human subject through a sleep cycle comprising a defined sequence of sleep stages based on current human sleep stage;
- modify the progress of the sleeping human subject through the sleep cycle comprising the defined sequence of human sleep stages dependent on a deviation of the current human sleep stage of the sleeping human subject from the sleep cycle comprising the defined sequence of stages, to a portion of the sequence of sleep stages corresponding to the current sleep stage within the defined sequence of sleep stages;
- define a stimulation pattern of the sensory stimulus for the sleeping human subject, dependent on the current human sleep stage, the progress of the sleeping human through the sleep cycle comprising the defined sequence of human sleep stages, and at least one database record of the database;
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- control the neurostimulator to deliver the sensory stimulus based on at least the defined stimulation pattern for the sleeping human subject.
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A system for facilitating sleep, comprising:
- a database configured to store a plurality of database records associated with respective human sleep stages, each database record defining a brain electrical activity waveform associated with a respective human sleep stage of a plurality of different sleep stages;
- a sensor configured to determine a current human sleep stage of a sleeping human subject;
- at least one automated processor configured to:
- monitor a current sleep stage and a progress of the sleeping human subject through a defined sequence of the plurality of different sleep stages;
- determine a deviation between the current sleep stage and an expected current sleep stage according to the defined sequence of the plurality of different sleep stages;
- modify the progress of the sleeping human subject through the defined sequence of the plurality of different sleep stages dependent on at least the determined deviation, to a respective sleep stage within the defined sequence of the plurality of different sleep stages corresponding to the current sleep stage;
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- define a stimulation pattern for the sleeping human subject, dependent on the current sleep stage, the progress of the sleeping human subject through the defined sequence of the plurality of different sleep stages, and at least one database record of the database corresponding to a next sleep stage in the defined sequence of the plurality of different sleep stages;
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- a neurostimulator configured to stimulate a sleeping human subject with a sensory stimulus, dependent on at least the defined stimulation pattern for the sleeping human subject, the sensory stimulus being configured to achieve brain entrainment of the sleeping human subject.
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A system to facilitate sleep in a sleeping human subject, comprising:
- a user device having at least one programmable processor and a sleep app executable on the at least one programmable processor,
- the sleep app including:
- instructions for determining a current sleep stage of the sleeping human subject;
- instructions for selecting a record in a database storing a plurality of records in dependence on at least the current sleep stage, each record of the database defining a respective waveform derived from brainwaves of at least one sleeping human donor,
- instructions for monitoring a progress of the sleeping human subject through a defined sequence of sleep stages based on current human sleep stage;
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- instructions for modifying the progress of the sleeping human subject through the sequence of sleep stages dependent on a deviation of the sleeping human subject from the sleep cycle comprising the defined sequence of stages, to a portion of the sequence of sleep stages corresponding to the current sleep stage within the defined sequence of sleep stages;
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- instructions for stimulating the sleeping human subject with at least one stimulus modulated with the waveform defined in the selected record,
- wherein the selected waveform is configured to entrain the brain of the sleeping subject facilitating sleep in the sleeping human subject.
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