Evidence · sources
24 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. | 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 |
| 23andMe bankruptcy sale to TTAM Research Institute | 23andMe press releases; U.S. Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Missouri | June 13, 2025 (agreement); July 2025 (closing) | TTAM Research Institute, the nonprofit founded by Anne Wojcicki, bought 23andMe and its data for $305 million after a final round of bidding, outbidding Regeneron’s May 2025 $256 million agreement. About 15 million people’s genetic records changed hands through a bankruptcy court. Figures: 15,000,000; $305M. | verified |
| USPTO trademark applications: Telepathy, Blindsight, Telekinesis | USPTO | March 2025 | Filed by Neuralink Corp. Figures: Telepathy, Blindsight, Telekinesis. | 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 |
| Patent and Law Research Handoff for the Website Build (state and federal law status as of Sept. 14, 2026) | Ediflo.AI research, checked against enrolled bills and legislative records | September 19, 2026 | Bill numbers, signing and effective dates, definitions and enforcement provisions for Colorado, California, Montana, Connecticut and Vermont; the MIND Act; 2026 bills that did not pass. Figures: S. 2925. | verified |
| Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology | UNESCO, 43rd General Conference | November 5, 2025 | Non-binding recommendation; in force November 12, 2025. Figures: November 5, 2025. | verified |
| Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act), Article 5(1)(f) and Article 50 | European Union | Applicable February 2, 2025 and August 2, 2026 | Prohibition on emotion inference from biometric data in workplaces and schools; transparency duties for emotion-recognition systems. Figures: EUR 35M or 7%. | verified |
| Patent and Law Research Handoff for the Website Build (patent verification pass) | Ediflo.AI research, checked on Google Patents Sept. 8 and 14, 2026 | September 19, 2026 | Source for every 2025 and 2026 patent number, grant date, assignee and verbatim excerpt on the site, and for the corrections to the April 2026 appendix. | verified |
| IEEE 802.11bf, Wi-Fi sensing amendment | IEEE | 2025 | The Wi-Fi sensing standard; commercial grants include Cognitive Systems US12452722B2 and Origin Wireless US12216190B2. | verified |