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US 2017/0246447 A1Published application
Cutaneous electrode
AssigneeNeurosigma, Inc.
InventorPatrick Miller
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Abstract
A windowed electrode assembly includes a foam layer having windows. Each window receives a corresponding gel pad that is sized such that it is contained by the window's sidewalls. The windowed electrode assembly includes a foam backing layer that forms a back wall for the windows such that each gel pad is encased by the window's sidewalls and back wall.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- placing a first gel pad provided in a first window of a cutaneous windowed electrode assembly over an ophthalmic nerve pair with regard to one orbit on a patient's forehead;
- placing a second gel pad provided in a second window of the cutaneous windowed electrode assembly over the ophthalmic nerve pair for a remaining orbit on the patient's forehead;
- and
- driving current between the first and the second gel pads to bilaterally stimulate the ophthalmic nerve pair to treat a disorder for the patient.
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A method, comprising:
- placing a first pair of gel pads of a cutaneous windowed electrode assembly over an ophthalmic nerve pair with regard to one orbit on a patient's forehead;
- placing a second pair of gel pads of the cutaneous windowed electrode assembly over the ophthalmic nerve pair for a remaining orbit on the patient's forehead;
- and
- driving current in each of the first and the second pairs of gel pads to stimulate the ophthalmic nerve pair to treat a disorder for the patient.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.