19 sources. Every figure traces to one.
Where a figure appears on this site, it came from one of these documents. Where a source is marked "partial," the document has been identified but the exact locator is still being confirmed, and the figure is not used on a sales page until it is.
| Source | Publisher | Date | Supports | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PatentVest Pulse Report: Brain-Computer Interfaces | PatentVest | April 2025 | Source for the projected US BCI market size, patent family count, organization count, total publication count and the IP leader designations. Figures: $400B; 2,160; 664; 3,336. | verified |
| The risks and challenges of neurotechnologies for human rights (Hain et al.) | UNESCO | 2023 | Source for cumulative 2010 to 2020 neurotechnology investment. Figures: $33.2B. | verified |
| Safeguarding Brain Data: Assessing the Privacy Practices of Consumer Neurotechnology Companies | Neurorights Foundation | April 2024 | Survey of 30 consumer neurotechnology companies’ data practices. Figures: 29 of 30. | verified |
| State neural data privacy legislation tracker | Future of Privacy Forum | 2025 | Source for the four enacted state neural-data laws. Figures: 4; 0. | verified |
| Neural data legislation: early 2026 activity | Cooley LLP | February 2026 | Source for the count of new bills and states in the first six weeks of 2026. Figures: 9 bills in 6 states. | verified |
| Six Paths to the Nonsurgical Future of Brain-Machine Interfaces | DARPA | May 20, 2019 | Official announcement naming the six N3 teams. Figures: 6; $100M+. | verified |
| Reporting on DARPA N3 grant awards | IEEE Spectrum | 2019 | Source for the $19.48M and $18M reported grant figures. Figures: $19.48M and $18M. | verified |
| Rice University MOANA Phase II contract | Military & Aerospace Electronics | 2021 | Source for the $9.8M Phase II figure. Figures: $9.8M. | verified |
| Statements by Al Emondi, N3 program manager | DARPA | 2019 | Source for the 50 millisecond read/write latency specification. Figures: 50 ms. | verified |
| 6G: The Next Horizon (white paper) | Huawei | 2021 | Source for the "augmented human sensing" use case language. Figures: "augmented human sensing". | verified |
| ETSI GR ISC 001: Integrated Sensing and Communication, use cases and deployment scenarios | ETSI ISG ISAC | April 2025 | Industry specification group report that includes human sensing scenarios. Figures: ETSI GR ISC 001. | verified |
| Brain-computer interface with metasurface and 6G wireless link | Nature Communications | August 2025 | Bridge paper linking BCI hardware to 6G infrastructure. Exact title and DOI to be confirmed before it is quoted on the Signal Shield page. | partial |
| Tower counts from company investor materials (American Tower, Crown Castle, SBA Communications, Vertical Bridge) | Company filings | 2025 | The 115,000+ figure is the sum of the four reported US tower counts. Figures: 115,000+. | verified |
| Company patent portfolio counts | Google Patents and PatentVest | April 2026 | Synchron 118, Neuralink 87, Precision Neuroscience 80, Paradromics 28, Blackrock about 50, Panasonic 33. The roughly 380 total is the sum across Brain Shield recipients. Figures: ~380. | verified |
| Girardi v. Emotiv Inc. | Supreme Court of Chile | August 2023 | First national supreme court ruling ordering a neurotechnology company to delete a user’s brain data. | verified |
| Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296 | Supreme Court of the United States | June 22, 2018 | Held that government acquisition of historical cell-site location records is a Fourth Amendment search. | verified |
| Regeneron to acquire 23andMe assets | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals press release and bankruptcy court record | May 2025 | $256M purchase of 23andMe assets including the genetic database of more than 15 million people. Cited in the About page as the precedent for treating personal data as a corporate asset. | verified |
| USPTO trademark applications: Telepathy, Blindsight, Telekinesis | USPTO | March 2025 | Filed by Neuralink Corp. | verified |
| Neuralink Corp. re-domestication filing | Nevada Secretary of State | February 8, 2024 | Move from Delaware to Nevada confirmed; registered agent lookup still pending. | partial |