Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Company, neuralink, submitted applications to the Patent Office and the United States trademarks (Powero) for having only names TelepathyTelekinesis and others for future products.
Neuralk, which Musk co-founded in 2016, develops a technology known as a brain-computers interface, a system that decodes brain activity to control the output device. Musk said that the company’s first product will be called telepathy and will allow people with paralysis the ability to control a computer or phone by thinking. But the Neualink trademarks application suggests that the company has ambitions related to technology enabling telepathic communication not only with electronic devices, but between people.
The neuralink interface includes a brain implant, which collects neural signals and software that translates these signals to cursor movements on the computer screen. Until now, three people have received an experimental Neuralink implant as part of an early feasibility study. The first, Noland Arbaugh, underwent brain surgery in January 2024 to get the device. In November, the company received permission to Open a trial site in Canada.
Business Trademarks for telepathyCompleted on March 3, describes the product as a “implanted brain for a computer interface to facilitate communication and control of software and hardware.” A “communication” claim may mean that telepathy is to assist with paralyzed people in communication by entering external on the device, but it can also mean enabling telepathic communication between people with implants from neuronalists.
“The question is: what kind of communication?” The trademark’s lawyer Josh Grawen, founder of Gerben IP, says. “Sometimes in these applications things hide in view.” He warns, however, that claims regarding a trademark applications may be speculative and excessively wide compared to patent applications, which must be more detailed about the operation of the invention and what it will be used for. The inclusion of telepathic communication, however, matched the wider vision of Neuralk.
Musk has long been interested in the concept of enabling telepathy using a computer interface. IN Long illustrated explanation from 2017 In which he presented the idea of his fresh company Neuralink, Musk was in favor of thought communication between people. “If I had to convey you a concept, you would basically get involved in consensual telepathy. You will not have to verbalize, unless you want to add some talents to a conversation or something like that, but the conversation would be a conceptual interaction at a level that is now difficult to imagine, “said blogger Tim Urban Musk.
Recently, Musk discussed the telepathic ambitions of Neuralink on the subject Podcast lex fridman In August 2024, “complete new ways of interaction with a computer can be unlocked,” said Fridman, referring to the potential improvement of the speed and accuracy of the Neuralink device. “And with other people,” Musk replied. “Provided that they have,” they wanted – also a neuralk. “
Musk speculated that well people would eventually get brain implants, enabling people achieve “symbiosis” with artificial intelligence.