Cross-cut: `implantable`

Axis: form_factor

36 corpus entries disclose this tag.

Earliest disclosure: 1963-03

Listed in chronological order. Each entry’s prior_art_notes and disclosure_citation constitute the citeable prior art material.

Iron Man — arc-reactor chest implant (embedded power/life-support device with status display) (1963-03)

id: iron-man-arc-reactor-chest-implant
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Stan Lee / Larry Lieber / Don Heck / Jack Kirby / Marvel Comics
disclosure: Tales of Suspense #39 (cover date March 1963), Marvel Comics, in which the original chest device keeps shrapnel from the wearer’s heart (elaborated as the implanted ‘arc reactor’ in Iron Man, Marvel Studios, 2008); a chest-embedded device functioning simultaneously as a power source, a life-sustaining medical implant, and a status-indicated module.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses a chest-embedded device that is at once a power source, a life-sustaining medical implant, and a module with an externally visible status indicator. Relevant to implantable-power-source and implant-with-status-display claims combining ‘a sub-dermal device’, ‘an energy store powering other implanted/worn equipment’, ‘a therapeutic (life-sustaining) function’, and ‘a status indicator perceptible at the body surface’. § 103 motivation as of 1963 (status-display variant as of 2008). Cf. [[logans-run-lifeclock]], [[total-recall-2012-palm-phone]].

Fantastic Voyage — miniaturized intravascular craft navigating the body (1966-08-24)

id: fantastic-voyage-intravascular-craft
corpus: fictional
form factor: ingestible
creator: Richard Fleischer / 20th Century Fox; novelization Isaac Asimov
disclosure: Fantastic Voyage (20th Century Fox), released August 24, 1966 (Isaac Asimov novelization, 1966); a miniaturized crewed craft is introduced into a patient’s bloodstream and navigates the vasculature to reach and treat an internal target, in two-way communication with an external control station.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses a small device introduced into the bloodstream that locomotes through the vasculature under guidance, reaches an internal target, performs an intervention there, and maintains a telemetry link to an external operator station. Relevant to intravascular microrobot / in-body capsule claims combining ‘a device sized to traverse a blood vessel’, ‘a propulsion or navigation means’, ‘a therapeutic or sensing payload’, and ‘a wireless link to an external controller’ — the modern microrobotics / capsule-endoscopy / intravascular-robotics patent space. § 103 motivation that the navigable in-bloodstream device was an articulated objective by 1966. Non-enabling on miniaturization.

Logan’s Run ‘Lifeclock’ palm crystal (1967)

id: logans-run-lifeclock
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
disclosure: Nolan, William F.; Johnson, George Clayton. Logan’s Run. Dial Press, 1967 — the palm-embedded crystal that changes color as the bearer approaches the mandated termination age. (Film: MGM, 1976, with the palm ‘Lifeclock’.)
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses a body-embedded, color-coded status display readable directly off the skin — a sub-dermal indicator that changes hue to communicate a tracked state variable. Relevant to (a) implantable/epidermal display claims and (b) color-mapped wearable status-indicator claims (the now-common green/amber/red ‘zone’ UI on fitness wearables). Non-enabling; § 103 motivation that a body-worn color-state display was an articulated concept by 1967. Note: the crystal is a countdown timer, not a sensor — value is the display+colormap element, not measurement.

Nova — ‘plug’ sockets at wrist and spine for direct machine operation (1968-08)

id: delany-nova-cyborg-sockets
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Samuel R. Delany
disclosure: Delany, Samuel R. Nova, Doubleday, 1968; people are born with sockets at the wrists and the small of the back (‘plugs’) used to connect directly to and operate machinery, ships, and tools as natural extensions of the body.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses standardized body-mounted sockets (at the wrist and spine) for direct, plug-in operation of external machines. Relevant to implanted/percutaneous neural- or sensorimotor-interface-port claims combining ‘a body-mounted connector’, ‘a standardized interface to external devices’, and ‘direct sensorimotor control of those devices’. § 103 motivation as of 1968 — predating [[the-matrix-headjack]], [[existenz-bioport-and-game-pod]], and the cyberpunk ‘datajack’ lineage. Non-enabling.

Cyborg / The Six Million Dollar Man — bionic eye and limbs with sensing (1972)

id: caidin-cyborg-bionics
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Martin Caidin
disclosure: Caidin, Martin. Cyborg. Arbor House, 1972 (television series The Six Million Dollar Man, ABC, 1973-1978) — a man fitted with a prosthetic eye providing zoom, telescopic, and infrared vision; prosthetic limbs with augmented force; and integrated sensing and telemetry of the prosthetics’ state.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-ir
prior art notes: Discloses a prosthetic ocular implant offering switchable imaging modes (optical zoom, telescopic magnification, infrared) feeding the wearer’s visual perception, together with powered prosthetic limbs whose force output and internal state are sensed and reported. Relevant to ocular-sensor-implant claims combining ‘a prosthetic eye’, ‘multi-mode imaging’, and ‘coupling to the visual system’, and to powered-prosthesis claims combining ‘an actuator’, ‘force/state sensing’, and ‘telemetry’. § 103 motivation that the multi-mode ocular implant and the sensored powered prosthesis were articulated objectives by 1972. Non-enabling; pair with enabling retinal-prosthesis / powered-prosthesis art.

The Bionic Woman — bionic ear (augmented, frequency-selective hearing) (1976-01-14)

id: bionic-woman-bionic-ear
corpus: fictional
form factor: hearing-aid
creator: Kenneth Johnson / Universal Television
disclosure: The Bionic Woman (ABC, premiered January 14, 1976) — a prosthetic ear giving the wearer greatly amplified hearing with the ability to tune to and isolate specific sound sources and frequencies at a distance.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-microphone-air
prior art notes: Discloses a prosthetic hearing device providing amplified hearing plus directional/frequency-selective listening — the wearer can steer toward and isolate a chosen sound source or band. Relevant to hearing-device claims combining ‘a worn or implanted hearing prosthesis’, ‘amplification’, and ‘beamforming / frequency-selective source isolation’ (modern hearable and hearing-aid ‘focus’ / ‘conversation isolation’ features). § 103 motivation that the steerable, frequency-selective augmented-hearing device was an articulated objective by 1976. Non-enabling; pair with enabling beamforming-hearing-aid art.

Escape from New York — wrist countdown unit and arterial micro-charge implant (1981-07-10)

id: escape-from-new-york-life-clock
corpus: fictional
form factor: watch
creator: John Carpenter / AVCO Embassy
disclosure: Escape from New York (AVCO Embassy Pictures), released 10 July 1981; micro-charges injected into the carotid arteries enforce a deadline, paired with a wrist-worn unit displaying the countdown and tracking the wearer.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses a paired system: a body-embedded enforcement implant (in the carotid arteries) and a wrist-worn unit that displays a countdown and tracks the wearer’s location. Relevant to compliance/monitoring-wearable claims combining ‘a wrist-worn display/tracker’ and ‘a co-implanted enforcement or monitoring element’. § 103 motivation as of 1981. Cf. [[logans-run-lifeclock]], [[demolition-man-tracking-implant]], [[the-running-man-tracking-collar]].

Shichiri et al. (1982) — wearable artificial pancreas with needle-type subcutaneous glucose sensor (1982-11-20)

id: shichiri-1982-wearable-needle-glucose-sensor
corpus: academic
form factor: patch
creator: Motoaki Shichiri et al. (Osaka University)
disclosure: Shichiri M, Kawamori R, Yamasaki Y, Hakui N, Abe H. ‘Wearable artificial endocrine pancreas with needle-type glucose sensor.’ The Lancet 1982;320(8308):1129-1131.
ip status: unknown
sensors: sensor-glucose-cgm
algorithms: algo-glucose-cgm-readout
prior art notes: Discloses a body-worn device with a needle-type electrochemical glucose sensor inserted into subcutaneous tissue, continuously transducing interstitial glucose and (in the closed-loop variant) driving insulin delivery — i.e. the wearable continuous glucose monitor, ~24 years before commercial CGM. Directly anticipates CGM claims combining ‘a wearable housing’, ‘a percutaneous needle-type enzyme-electrode sensor in subcutaneous tissue’, and ‘continuous transduction of interstitial glucose’. Anchor for the patch × glucose-CGM cross-cut; Medtronic MiniMed (1999), Dexcom (2006), Abbott Libre (2014) all descend from this form.

Neuromancer — Molly’s mirrored ocular implants with embedded data readout (1984)

id: neuromancer-mirrorshade-ocular-implants
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: William Gibson
disclosure: Gibson, William. Neuromancer, Ace Books, 1984; surgically inset mirrored lenses sealing the eye sockets, with a time display and other readouts projected into the wearer’s field of view.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses surgically implanted ocular lenses that present a head-up data readout (clock and other status) in the wearer’s visual field — an early implanted-AR-display concept. Relevant to ocular-implant / AR-contact-lens claims combining ‘an implanted or contact-lens optical element’ and ‘an overlaid data readout in the visual field’. § 103 motivation as of 1984 — predating [[cyberpunk-2020-cyberoptics-and-interface-plugs]] (1988) and [[rainbows-end-ar-contact-lens]] (2006). Non-enabling.

Cyberpunk 2020 — ‘cyberoptics’ and ‘Interface plugs’ (implanted sensor eyes + neural ports) (1988)

id: cyberpunk-2020-cyberoptics-and-interface-plugs
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Mike Pondsmith / R. Talsorian Games
disclosure: Pondsmith, Mike. Cyberpunk (a.k.a. ‘Cyberpunk 2013’), R. Talsorian Games, 1988 (expanded as ‘Cyberpunk 2020’, 1990; video game ‘Cyberpunk 2077’, 2020); ‘cyberoptics’ — prosthetic eyes with selectable modes (low-light, infrared, telescopic, image enhancement), camera/recording options, and a HUD overlay — and ‘Interface plugs’ / neural processors for direct device control.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-ir, sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses prosthetic ocular implants with user-selectable imaging modes (low-light, IR, telescopic, enhancement), optional integrated camera and recording, and a HUD overlay, plus implanted neural ports for direct machine control. Relevant to implantable-vision-system and implanted-neural-interface claims; part of the chronological chain through [[caidin-cyborg-bionics]] (1972), [[neuromancer-mirrorshade-implants]] (1984), [[shadowrun-cyberware]] (1989), [[ghost-in-the-shell-cyberbrain]] (1989). § 103 motivation as of 1988.

Shadowrun — ‘cyberware’ (cybereyes, cyberears, datajack, smartlink) (1989)

id: shadowrun-cyberware
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Bob Charrette / Paul Hume / Tom Dowd / FASA
disclosure: Shadowrun, 1st edition, FASA Corporation, 1989; implanted ‘cybereyes’ (low-light/thermal/magnification/recording, HUD overlay), ‘cyberears’ (amplification, spatial recognition, recording), a head-mounted ‘datajack’ (neural data port), and a ‘smartlink’ wiring a weapon’s targeting reticle into the eye.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-ir, sensor-camera-thermal, sensor-microphone-air
prior art notes: Discloses implanted vision and hearing prostheses with selectable enhancement modes and recording, a cranial neural data port, and a HUD targeting overlay wired to the eye. Relevant to implantable-sensory-prosthesis and implanted-data-port claims; an independent 1989 disclosure parallel to [[cyberpunk-2020-cyberoptics-and-interface-plugs]] and [[ghost-in-the-shell-cyberbrain]]. § 103 motivation as of 1989.

Ghost in the Shell — cyberbrain neural-interface implant and cyberbody monitoring (1989-04)

id: ghost-in-the-shell-cyberbrain
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Masamune Shirow
disclosure: Shirow, Masamune. The Ghost in the Shell (Kōkaku Kidōtai), serialized in Young Magazine from April 1989, Kodansha; cybernetically augmented people carry a ‘cyberbrain’ — a neural-interface implant with wired data ports at the nape of the neck, networked connectivity, external memory, AR overlays, and continuous monitoring of the prosthetic body’s status.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses an implanted neural interface providing (a) high-bandwidth data I/O to the brain via dedicated ports, (b) wireless and wired networking of the implant, (c) externalized/augmented memory, (d) AR information overlays on perception, and (e) continuous status monitoring of an attached prosthetic body. Relevant to implantable-BCI claims combining ‘an implanted neural interface’, ‘a wired/wireless data link’, and ‘continuous monitoring of body or prosthesis state’. § 103 motivation that the networked implantable neural interface with body monitoring was an articulated objective by 1989. Non-enabling; pair with enabling neural-implant art.

Star Trek Borg cybernetic implant suite (1989-05-08)

id: star-trek-borg-implants
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Maurice Hurley / Paramount Television
disclosure: Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Q Who’ (first aired May 8, 1989); the Borg — humanoids fitted with an integrated suite of cybernetic implants: an ocular sensor implant, a cortical processing node, continuous physiological regulation, and a permanent network link to a collective.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-ir
prior art notes: Discloses a coordinated suite of implanted devices: a vision-replacement ocular sensor implant; an implanted processing/computation node interfaced to the nervous system; implanted systems that continuously monitor and regulate the host’s physiology; and a persistent wireless link joining the implants to an external network. Relevant to implantable-sensor-network and implantable-physiological-regulation claims combining ‘a plurality of implanted sensors/effectors’, ‘an implanted processor’, ‘closed-loop physiological control’, and ‘a wireless link to an external system’. § 103 motivation that the networked implantable sensor/regulator suite was an articulated objective by 1989.

Demolition Man subcutaneous tracking implant and ambient sensing ‘fine machine’ (1993-10-08)

id: demolition-man-tracking-implant
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Marco Brambilla / Silver Pictures
disclosure: Demolition Man (Warner Bros. / Silver Pictures), released October 8, 1993; every citizen carries a subcutaneous microchip used for identification and location tracking, and ambient acoustic sensors detect statutory violations (e.g. profanity) and automatically dispense a fine.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses (a) a subcutaneous implanted identification-and-location chip carried by every individual, queryable wirelessly, and (b) ambient sensors that detect a defined event from a person and automatically trigger a consequence. Relevant to subcutaneous RFID/identification-implant claims combining ‘a sub-dermal implant storing an identifier’, ‘a wireless reader’, and ‘a location/access function’, and to ambient-sensing-triggered-action claims. § 103 motivation that the implanted ID/location chip on every person was an articulated objective by 1993.

The Matrix — migrating intra-abdominal surveillance ‘bug’ (1999-03-31)

id: the-matrix-navel-tracking-bug
corpus: fictional
form factor: ingestible
creator: The Wachowskis / Village Roadshow
disclosure: The Matrix (Warner Bros. / Village Roadshow), released March 31, 1999; a small robotic device is introduced into a person through the navel, burrows into and lodges in the abdomen, and serves as a covert tracking/surveillance implant until later located and extracted.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses a small device introduced into the body through a natural opening that actively migrates to and anchors at an internal site and then functions as a covert tracking/sensing implant, locatable and retrievable afterward. Relevant to ingestible/implantable migrating-capsule claims combining ‘a device introduced via a body orifice’, ‘self-locomotion to an internal site’, ‘an anchoring mechanism’, and ‘a tracking or sensing function’ — adjacent to capsule-endoscopy, ingestible-sensor, and locatable-implant patents. § 103 motivation that the migrating, self-anchoring in-body capsule was an articulated objective by 1999.

The Matrix — cranial ‘headjack’ neural-interface socket (1999-03-31)

id: the-matrix-headjack
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: The Wachowskis / Village Roadshow
disclosure: The Matrix (Warner Bros. / Village Roadshow), released 31 March 1999; a socket implanted at the back of the skull accepts a probe (‘jacking in’) providing full-sensory bidirectional neural connection to a simulated environment and supporting rapid ‘download’ of skills into the brain.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses a cranial socket implant providing a wired, full-sensory, bidirectional neural connection between the brain and an external system, including bulk transfer of procedural knowledge into the brain. Relevant to implanted-neural-port and neural-data-transfer claims. § 103 motivation as of 1999. Cf. [[existenz-bioport-and-game-pod]], [[neuromancer-simstim-and-trodes]], [[gibson-neuromancer-microsoft-skill-chips]].

eXistenZ — spinal ‘bioport’ and organic neural game pod (1999-04-23)

id: existenz-bioport-and-game-pod
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: David Cronenberg / Alliance Atlantis
disclosure: eXistenZ (Alliance Atlantis / Dimension Films), released 23 April 1999; a surgically installed ‘bioport’ at the base of the spine accepts an ‘UmbyCord’ from an organic game pod, providing a full-immersion neural game interface read and driven through the spinal cord.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses a surgically installed spinal port that accepts a wired connection from an external device for full-immersion neural interfacing. Relevant to implanted-neural-port claims combining ‘a percutaneous/sub-dermal port at the spine’, ‘a connector to an external device’, and ‘bidirectional neural I/O’. § 103 motivation as of 1999. Cf. [[the-matrix-headjack]], [[delany-nova-cyborg-sockets]].

Medtronic MiniMed CGMS (1999) — first FDA-cleared continuous glucose monitoring system (1999-06)

id: medtronic-minimed-cgms-1999
corpus: private
form factor: patch
creator: MiniMed Inc. / Medtronic Diabetes
disclosure: MiniMed Inc. (later Medtronic Diabetes). ‘Continuous Glucose Monitoring System (CGMS)’, FDA-cleared June 1999 — the first commercial CGM: a subcutaneous needle-type amperometric glucose sensor coupled to a body-worn recorder logging interstitial-glucose readings for retrospective (‘professional’) review. (Real-time display followed with the Guardian RT, 2005.)
ip status: patented
sensors: sensor-glucose-cgm
algorithms: algo-glucose-cgm-readout
prior art notes: Discloses the first commercial continuous glucose monitor: a percutaneous needle-type amperometric glucose sensor in subcutaneous tissue feeding a body-worn recorder that logs interstitial glucose over days for review. Anticipates CGM-system claims combining ‘a wearable housing’, ‘a subcutaneous needle-type enzyme-electrode glucose sensor’, and ‘logging/transmission of interstitial-glucose readings’ from 1999 — a commercial realization of [[shichiri-1982-wearable-needle-glucose-sensor]] (1982). Product-side anchor for the patch × glucose-CGM cross-cut; Dexcom (2006) and Abbott Libre (2014) follow.

Altered Carbon — ‘cortical stack’ cervical-spine consciousness store (2002-03-01)

id: altered-carbon-cortical-stack
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Richard K. Morgan
disclosure: Morgan, Richard K. Altered Carbon. Gollancz, 2002 (Netflix adaptation 2018); a ‘cortical stack’ implanted at the top of the spinal column digitally stores a person’s consciousness and memory, removable and transferable between bodies (‘sleeves’).
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses a cervical-spine implant that continuously stores a person’s neural state/identity in digital form, designed to be removed and re-installed in a different body. Relevant to implantable neural-data-store claims combining ‘a cervical implant’, ‘continuous capture of neural state’, and ‘removable, transferable storage’. § 103 motivation that the spinal consciousness-store was an articulated objective by 2002. Cf. [[ghost-in-the-shell-cyberbrain]], [[delany-nova-cyborg-sockets]].

Iron Man — ‘Extremis’ (integrated body modification with wireless sensorium) (2005-01)

id: iron-man-extremis
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Warren Ellis / Adi Granov / Marvel Comics
disclosure: Iron Man: Extremis #1-6 (Marvel Comics, 2005-2006, by Warren Ellis and Adi Granov); the ‘Extremis’ process rewrites the host’s biology to integrate armor control into the nervous system, store equipment within the bones, accelerate healing, and provide a continuous wireless data feed to the host’s senses.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses a body modification that integrates equipment control into the nervous system, stores deployable hardware within the body, accelerates physiological repair, and streams ambient data continuously into the host’s perception. Relevant to integrated body-augmentation claims combining ‘sub-dermal/embedded hardware’, ‘neural integration of device control’, and ‘a continuous wireless sensorium’. § 103 motivation as of 2005. Cf. [[stark-iron-spider-suit]], [[neuromancer-mirrorshade-implants]].

Dexcom STS (2006) — early real-time continuous glucose monitoring system (2006-03)

id: dexcom-sts-2006
corpus: private
form factor: patch
creator: DexCom, Inc.
disclosure: DexCom, Inc. ‘STS Continuous Glucose Monitoring System’, FDA-approved March 2006 — a subcutaneously inserted wire-type amperometric glucose sensor transmitting interstitial-glucose readings every few minutes to a small wireless receiver with trend display and alerts (7-day wear in the successor ‘Seven’).
ip status: patented
sensors: sensor-glucose-cgm
algorithms: algo-glucose-cgm-readout
prior art notes: Discloses a real-time CGM: a subcutaneously inserted wire-type amperometric glucose sensor with a body-worn transmitter sending readings every few minutes to a wireless receiver showing the current value, trend arrow, and alerts. Anticipates real-time-CGM claims combining ‘a subcutaneous glucose sensor with a wearable transmitter’, ‘periodic wireless transmission of glucose values’, and ‘a receiver presenting current value, trend, and threshold alerts’ from 2006. Product-side anchor for the patch × glucose-CGM cross-cut alongside [[medtronic-minimed-cgms-1999]].

Blue Beetle ‘Scarab’ — spine-attached adaptive armor generator with HUD and AI (2006-05)

id: blue-beetle-scarab
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Keith Giffen / John Rogers / Cully Hamner / DC Comics
disclosure: Blue Beetle (vol. 8) #1 (Marvel… DC Comics, May 2006), the Jaime Reyes incarnation; an alien biotechnological device that attaches to the host’s spine and on activation extrudes a full conformal armored exo-body with weapons, flight, sensors, a heads-up display, and a symbiotic on-board artificial intelligence.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-camera-ir
prior art notes: Discloses a spine-attached device that, on command, generates a conformal powered exo-body with integrated sensors, a near-eye HUD, and an on-board AI in symbiotic dialogue with the host. Relevant to implant-plus-exoskeleton claims combining ‘a body-attached generator unit’, ‘a deployable conformal powered suit’, ‘integrated sensing and a HUD’, and ‘an onboard assistant’. § 103 motivation as of 2006. Cf. [[stark-iron-spider-suit]], [[venom-symbiote-suit]].
Repo Men — artificial organ implant with built-in monitoring/repossession transponder (2009-04) — repo-men-organ-transponder [fictional] — Garcia, Eric. The Repossession Mambo, Harper, 2009 (film: Repo Men, Universal Pictures, 2010); financed artificial organs (‘artiforgs’) carry an integrated transponder reporting the implant’s status a…
Black Mirror ‘grain’ implant (‘The Entire History of You’) (2011-12-18)
id: black-mirror-grain-implant
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Charlie Brooker / Jesse Armstrong / Zeppotron
disclosure: Black Mirror, ‘The Entire History of You’ (Channel 4, 18 December 2011); a ‘grain’ implanted behind the ear continuously records the wearer’s audiovisual experience, replayable on the retina or cast to an external screen (‘re-do’).
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-microphone-air
prior art notes: Discloses a behind-the-ear implanted lifelogging device that continuously captures the wearer’s first-person audiovisual stream and replays it onto the wearer’s retina or to an external display with seek/scrub controls. Relevant to implantable lifelogging claims combining ‘a sub-dermal recorder’, ‘continuous capture of first-person audio/video’, ‘retinal or external playback’, and ‘random-access review’. § 103 motivation that the implanted always-on experience recorder was an articulated objective by 2011. Non-enabling on the implant electronics.

Total Recall (2012) — subdermal palm phone with through-skin display (2012-08-03)

id: total-recall-2012-palm-phone
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Len Wiseman / Columbia Pictures
disclosure: Total Recall (Columbia Pictures), released August 3, 2012; a telephone implanted in the wearer’s hand — dial pad and display visible through the skin of the palm, speaker/microphone in the hand, glass surfaces used as touch interfaces.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-microphone-air
prior art notes: Discloses a subdermally-implanted electronic device with a display rendered so as to be visible through the overlying skin, touch input on the skin surface, and audio I/O — i.e. an epidermal/sub-dermal communicator in the hand. Relevant to implantable / electronic-skin claims combining ‘a sub-dermal electronic device’, ‘a display perceptible through the skin’, and ‘touch input at the skin surface’. § 103 motivation that the through-skin sub-dermal display device was an articulated objective by 2012. Non-enabling on the display/skin optics; pair with enabling flexible-display and biocompatible-electronics art.

Black Mirror ‘Z-Eye’ ocular implant with selective people-redaction (‘White Christmas’) (2014-12-16)

id: black-mirror-z-eye-redaction
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Charlie Brooker / Zeppotron
disclosure: Black Mirror, ‘White Christmas’ (Channel 4, 16 December 2014); the ‘Z-Eye’ ocular implant lets a user ‘block’ another person, who is thereafter rendered as a featureless grey silhouette with muffled audio in the user’s perception (and the block is reciprocal).
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses an ocular implant that performs real-time, person-specific augmented-reality redaction — recognizing an individual in view and replacing their appearance and voice with an obscured rendering. Relevant to AR-eyewear / AR-implant claims combining ‘person recognition’, ‘a user-defined block list’, and ‘real-time obscuring of the recognized person in the rendered view’. § 103 motivation that AR person-redaction was an articulated objective by 2014. Cf. [[they-live-hoffman-lenses]] (the inverse — revealing rather than hiding).

Westworld — host ‘control unit’ and continuous body telemetry (2016-10-02)

id: westworld-host-control-unit
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Jonathan Nolan / Lisa Joy / HBO
disclosure: Westworld (HBO, premiered 2 October 2016); each android ‘host’ contains a removable ‘control unit’ in the cranium storing its cognition and identity, with continuous telemetry of the host’s mechanical/physiological state and behaviour to a central facility.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses a removable cranial unit that stores an embodied agent’s cognition and identity and that maintains continuous wireless telemetry of body and behavioural state to a central system. Relevant to implantable-data-store / implantable-telemetry claims; later instance of the chain through [[ghost-in-the-shell-cyberbrain]], [[star-trek-borg-implants]]. § 103 motivation as of 2016.

id: black-mirror-nosedive-rating-overlay
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Charlie Brooker / Rashida Jones / Michael Schur / House of Tomorrow
disclosure: Black Mirror, ‘Nosedive’ (Netflix, 21 October 2016); an ocular implant paired with a handset overlays every person in view with their live aggregate social rating, updated continuously from peer ratings of every interaction.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses an ocular AR device that recognizes people in view and renders a live reputation/score badge beside each, with the score continuously updated from crowd ratings of interactions. Relevant to AR-eyewear claims combining ‘person recognition’, ‘retrieval of a per-person reputation metric’, and ‘real-time overlay of the metric on the recognized person’. § 103 motivation that the AR reputation overlay was an articulated objective by 2016. Cf. [[dragon-ball-z-scouter]] (an earlier scan-and-display-a-metric eyewear).

Black Mirror ‘Playtest’ — adaptive mixed-reality implant driven by biometric fear response (2016-10-21)

id: black-mirror-playtest-implant
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Charlie Brooker / House of Tomorrow
disclosure: Black Mirror, ‘Playtest’ (Netflix, 21 October 2016); a behind-the-ear implant (‘the mushroom’) renders mixed-reality content directly into the player’s perception and adapts it in real time to the player’s measured fears and physiological responses.
ip status: fictional
algorithms: algo-emotion-recognition
prior art notes: Discloses an implanted mixed-reality device that both renders content into the wearer’s perception and continuously measures the wearer’s affective state (fear), closing a loop so the content adapts to the measured response. Relevant to closed-loop AR/VR claims combining ‘rendering immersive content’, ‘biometric/affect sensing of the user’, and ‘adapting the content to the sensed state’. § 103 motivation that the affect-adaptive immersive device was an articulated objective by 2016.

Black Mirror ‘Men Against Fire’ — ‘MASS’ military neural implant (2016-10-21)

id: black-mirror-men-against-fire-mass-implant
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Charlie Brooker / House of Tomorrow
disclosure: Black Mirror, ‘Men Against Fire’ (Netflix, 21 October 2016); the ‘MASS’ implant gives soldiers a tactical AR HUD and comms, alters their perception (rendering targeted persons as monstrous ‘roaches’), suppresses sensory aversion, and delivers reward/dream conditioning, with physiological telemetry to command.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses an implanted neural device combining a tactical AR HUD, comms, perception alteration (re-rendering people in view), sensory-aversion suppression, conditioning via reward/dream stimulation, and physiological telemetry to a remote commander. Relevant to military-HUD-implant claims; extends the perception-modification chain — cf. [[black-mirror-z-eye-redaction]], [[predator-bio-mask]], [[terminator-t800-hud]]. § 103 motivation that the perception-altering combat implant was an articulated objective by 2016.

Black Mirror ‘Arkangel’ parental-monitoring neural implant (2017-12-29)

id: black-mirror-arkangel-implant
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Charlie Brooker / House of Tomorrow
disclosure: Black Mirror, ‘Arkangel’ (Netflix, 29 December 2017); a neural implant given to a child providing the parent with GPS location, vital-sign monitoring, a live first-person video feed, and real-time visual censoring (pixelating distressing sights and muting sounds in the child’s perception).
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses an implanted device that (a) reports the wearer’s location and vitals to a remote guardian, (b) streams the wearer’s first-person view, and (c) modifies the wearer’s own perception in real time (visual redaction, audio attenuation). Relevant to implantable-monitoring claims combining ‘location + physiological telemetry to a remote party’, ‘first-person video streaming’, and ‘perceptual filtering of the wearer’s sensory input’. § 103 motivation that the perception-modifying monitoring implant was an articulated objective by 2017. Cf. [[black-mirror-grain-implant]], [[black-mirror-z-eye-redaction]].

Dexcom G6 (2018) — no-calibration real-time CGM with predictive low-glucose alert and direct phone streaming (2018-03)

id: dexcom-g6-2018
corpus: private
form factor: patch
creator: DexCom, Inc.
disclosure: DexCom, Inc. ‘Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucose Monitoring System’, FDA-cleared March 2018 — a subcutaneous wire-type glucose sensor with a low-profile on-skin transmitter, factory-calibrated (no fingerstick calibration), 10-day wear, 5-minute readings streamed directly to a phone or receiver, with customizable alerts and a predictive ‘urgent low soon’ alarm; the successor Dexcom G7 (2022) is smaller with a faster warm-up.
ip status: patented
sensors: sensor-glucose-cgm
algorithms: algo-glucose-cgm-readout
prior art notes: Discloses a real-time CGM that is factory-calibrated (no user blood-glucose calibration), worn 10 days, streams 5-minute glucose values directly to a phone, and provides a predictive low-glucose alert (‘urgent low soon’) in addition to threshold and rate alarms. Anticipates CGM claims reciting ‘factory calibration without user calibration’, ‘direct streaming to a general-purpose mobile device’, and ‘a predictive (forecast-based) hypoglycemia alert’ from 2018. Product-side anchor for the patch × glucose-CGM cross-cut alongside [[abbott-freestyle-libre-2014]].

Upgrade — ‘STEM’ spinal AI implant with sensorimotor takeover (2018-03-10)

id: upgrade-stem-spinal-implant
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Leigh Whannell / Blumhouse
disclosure: Upgrade (BH Tilt / Blumhouse), 2018; the ‘STEM’ chip implanted at the base of the spine interfaces with the host’s nervous system, restoring and then augmenting motor control, processing sensory input, and acting as an on-board AI co-pilot for the body.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-emg
prior art notes: Discloses a spinal implant that bridges/replaces damaged neural pathways to restore motor control, processes the host’s sensory input, and provides on-board computational assistance for movement. Relevant to spinal-cord-stimulation / motor-restoration implant claims combining ‘a spinal implant interfacing motor and sensory pathways’, ‘restoration or augmentation of motor function’, and ‘an onboard processor’. § 103 motivation as of 2018. Cf. [[elysium-bolt-on-exoskeleton]].

FDA De Novo (2018) — ‘integrated continuous glucose monitoring system’ (iCGM) classification (Dexcom G6) (2018-03-27)

id: fda-den170088-dexcom-icgm-2018
corpus: regulatory
form factor: patch
creator: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (CDRH); requester Dexcom, Inc.
disclosure: U.S. FDA, De Novo classification (Dexcom, Inc., ‘Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucose Monitoring System’), granted March 2018 — established the new device class ‘integrated continuous glucose monitoring system’ (iCGM): a CGM intended to reliably and securely transmit glucose data to digitally-connected devices (e.g. automated insulin-dosing systems), with stringent accuracy special controls; reportedly DEN170088 (verify against the FDA De Novo database).
ip status: regulatory-filing
sensors: sensor-glucose-cgm
algorithms: algo-glucose-cgm-readout
prior art notes: A public, dated FDA decision creating the ‘integrated CGM’ device class — a continuous glucose monitor designed to interoperate (transmit glucose data) with other devices such as automated insulin pumps, under defined accuracy and security special controls. Establishes as of 2018 the public availability of an interoperable, factory-calibrated real-time CGM intended as a component of a connected diabetes-management system. Prior art for CGM-interoperability and connected-CGM claims; regulatory anchor pairing with [[dexcom-g6-2018]] and [[shichiri-1982-wearable-needle-glucose-sensor]].

Senseonics Eversense (2018) — first long-term implantable continuous glucose monitor (fluorescence sensor + on-skin transmitter) (2018-06)

id: eversense-implantable-cgm-2018
corpus: private
form factor: implantable
creator: Senseonics, Inc.
disclosure: Senseonics, Inc. ‘Eversense Continuous Glucose Monitoring System’, FDA-approved June 2018 (CE-marked earlier) — a small fluorescence-based glucose sensor implanted subcutaneously in the upper arm for 90 days (later 180+ days), read by a removable transmitter worn on the skin over it that powers the sensor inductively, computes glucose, and streams it to a phone with on-body vibratory alerts.
ip status: patented
sensors: sensor-glucose-cgm
algorithms: algo-glucose-cgm-readout
prior art notes: Discloses a long-term (months) implantable glucose sensor — a fluorescence-chemistry sensor implanted subcutaneously — paired with a removable on-skin transmitter that inductively powers and reads the sensor, derives glucose, streams it wirelessly, and gives on-body vibratory alerts. Distinct from the needle/wire-type CGMs ([[shichiri-1982-wearable-needle-glucose-sensor]], [[dexcom-sts-2006]], [[abbott-freestyle-libre-2014]]): a fully implanted, wirelessly-powered, fluorescence-based long-term sensor with a separable wearable reader. Anticipates implantable-CGM claims reciting that architecture from 2018. Product-side anchor for the implantable × glucose-CGM cross-cut.

Severance — ‘severance’ brain implant bifurcating consciousness (2022-02-18)

id: severance-bifurcation-chip
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Dan Erickson / Ben Stiller / Apple TV+
disclosure: Severance (Apple TV+, premiered 18 February 2022); a surgically implanted brain chip (‘the severance procedure’) partitions a worker’s episodic memory and identity into two states (‘innie’ and ‘outie’), switched automatically by location (descending in the office elevator).
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses an implanted neural device that gates access to a person’s episodic memory and identity by an external trigger (location), producing two distinct operative states. Relevant to implantable-neuromodulation claims combining ‘a brain implant’, ‘context-triggered state switching’, and ‘modulation of memory access’. § 103 motivation that the context-switched cognitive-state implant was an articulated objective by 2022.

Cross-cut: implantable