"A landmark invention"
"I have been practicing patent law for over twenty years, and have been teaching the patent law courses at Baylor Law School for fourteen years. Despite dealing with hundreds of patent matters…, one rarely comes across truly “pioneering” or “landmark” inventions. Chris Hymel’s systems and methods pertaining to, and made possible by the unprecedented, early detection of precursors to physiological, electrochemical phenomena in humans appear to be just such an invention… “Excited” is not too strong a description of my reaction to this technology and its future potential — not a term I often use in this context."
David G. Henry, Registered Patent Attorney
The Need for Signal Advance Technology
Current technology used in the detection, acquisition and processing of analog waveforms and signals necessarily imposes delays that impact the use of the acquired data. These delays may adversely affect the regulation or control of certain biomedical processes or degrade potential interventions to ameliorate abnormal activity (e.g. an aberrant heartbeat rhythm or brainwaves during an epileptic seizure). When analog signals from a physiological event change rapidly, it is advantageous to intervene with the underlying event more proximately in time. Signal Advance® technology enables this rapid reaction.
Signal Advance® technology (patent pending) allows for the early detection of incoming analog waveforms in advance of their complete acquisition. The increased response efficiency of the technology will reduce or even eliminate signal processing delays inherent in currently available systems. Further, it may result in entirely new control or intervention approaches by “pre-“detecting anomalous signals in various applications.