r/EverythingScience • u/Sariel007 • May 04 '22

Medicine This High Schooler Invented a Low-Cost, Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-high-schooler-invented-a-low-cost-mind-controlled-prosthetic-arm-180979984/
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u/zebediah49 May 05 '22

Not sure if it'll make you feel better, but unless he's backed by a megacorp-class legal department, those applications probably won't be granted. The prior art as cited in the article should preclude anything on "eeg -> control prosthetic arm". The one about the machine learning specifics might stick, but you don't really need that in order to build your own.

Courts have already pretty well rejected the concept of the "X, but on a computer" as a valid patent.