MODULE_03 // PATENT_RECORD

PATENTS

Laboratory light-table layout: two hosted drawing panels per grant where available, plus a fixed index. Grants document what was filed, not what is provably deployed against a named individual.

INSTRUCTION_03 // HOW_TO_READ_A_GRANT

Abstract
Short summary of the idea — useful orientation, not the enforceable boundary.
Claims
The legally delimited scope: what the applicant asserts the apparatus or method does, in numbered, formal language.
Prior art
Citations and narrative of earlier work — shows the incremental record from earlier decades (e.g. 1960s–80s RF bioeffects context) without proving any single deployment.

A grant proves disclosure + claims, not that a device works as advertised in the field, and not attribution to any operator.

US 3,951,134 // Robert G. Malech

Apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brain waves

  • [CATEGORY: NEURAL_INTERFACING]
  • [STATUS: EXPIRED]
  • [TYPE: REMOTE_MONITORING]

Analysis
A 1970s-era disclosure in the published record for remote EEG-oriented apparatus. It is evidence of what inventors were willing to file, not evidence that a specific operational system tracks any individual today.

Key claim (reader digest)
Independent claims cover remote interference with / modulation of brain-wave activity using paired transmitters and interference at the subject — read the issued claims for exact scope, not popular summaries.

Verify assignee chain and claim elements against the PDF before citing in legal arguments.

PANEL_01 // SYSTEM_OVERVIEW

Published drawing sheet (Google Patents host).

PANEL_02 // SIGNAL_PATH

Second sheet in the hosted figure index.

US 4,858,612 // Philip L. Stocklin

Hearing device

  • [CATEGORY: NEURAL_INTERFACING]
  • [STATUS: EXPIRED]
  • [TYPE: MICROWAVE_AUDITORY_HARDWARE]

Analysis
Stocklin’s published grant is a concrete patent-record anchor for “RF → auditory percept” hardware narratives. It does not prove the mechanism (Frey-class thermoelastic vs. other coupling paths) or any modern deployment — it proves disclosure and claimed subject matter in the record.

Key claim (reader digest)
The specification discusses using microwave-frequency energy (the grant text references a broad RF band in the MHz range) to couple audio-derived information into neural hearing pathways — bridge the file to thermoelastic / cochlear coupling discussions in MODULE_02.

Cross-check frequency ranges and embodiments in the PDF; do not paraphrase beyond what the claims cover.

PANEL_01 // SYSTEM_OVERVIEW

First hosted drawing page in Google Patents index.

PANEL_02 // WAVEFORM_MODULATION

Second drawing page — modulation / transducer context per sheet.

US 6,012,330 // Douglas A. Palmer

Method and apparatus for the artificial triggering of lightning

  • [CATEGORY: ATMOSPHERIC_ENGINEERING]
  • [STATUS: EXPIRED]
  • [TYPE: LIGHTNING_TRIGGERING]

Analysis
Kept here as a cautionary example: patent numbers in secondary lists drift. The drawings below are authentic for this grant only.

Key claim (reader digest)
Claims and specification address conductive water-jet paths for lightning diversion — not VLF/ELF neural coupling. If your notes mapped this number to bio / nervous-system subject matter, the ID is likely wrong; locate the intended grant.

Always match number → title → inventor before building a chain of reasoning.

PANEL_01 // APPARATUS_OVERVIEW

Lightning apparatus drawing (hosted page 3).

PANEL_02 // FLUID_PATH

Follow-on sheet from same grant.

US 6,238,333 // Hendricus G. Loos

Remote magnetic manipulation of nervous systems

  • [CATEGORY: NEURAL_INTERFACING]
  • [STATUS: EXPIRED]
  • [TYPE: REMOTE_MANIPULATION]

Analysis
Provides a patent-record reference for weak-field, resonance-oriented neural influence claims. Pairs with Adey-window / excitability language in MODULE_02 as filed IP, not as a field measurement from your location.

Key claim (reader digest)
Manipulation of nervous system function via weak external magnetic fields tuned toward sensory resonance — specification discusses sub-Hz to low-Hz modulation regimes that overlap the “windowing” theme in MODULE_02 (verify exact ranges in the issued document).

Read independent claims; distinguish apparatus from proven health outcomes.

PANEL_01 // SYSTEM_OVERVIEW

First figure sheet in Google Patents index for this grant.

PANEL_02 // FIELD_COUPLING

Second sheet — subject / coil geometry context.

US 6,488,617 // Bruce F. Katz

Method and device for producing a desired brain state

  • [CATEGORY: NEURAL_INTERFACING]
  • [STATUS: EXPIRED]
  • [TYPE: BRAIN_STATE_MODULATION]

Analysis
Useful as a record of commercial / assignee-side filing (Universal Hedonics) in the brain-state modulation space. Not a substitute for calibrated exposure evidence in an individual case.

Key claim (reader digest)
Discloses methods/devices coupling EEG-related parameters to stimulation toward target brain states — read claims for the exact closed-loop elements; often mis-attributed online as “Loos” by number confusion.

Expired as of adjusted dates in USPTO / Google Patents — confirm in your legal memo.

PANEL_01 // SYSTEM_OVERVIEW

Published drawing 1.

PANEL_02 // BLOCK_DETAIL

Published drawing 2.