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accession: "0001683168-23-005194"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DPLS"
cik: "0000866439"
company_name: "DarkPulse, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-08-01T23:59:59+00:00"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# DarkPulse JV Neural Logistics files for FDA Humanitarian Use Device designation for speech prosthesis

## Summary
- Neural Logistics, DarkPulse JV, seeks FDA Humanitarian Use Device designation for speech prosthesis for ALS patients.
- Machine learning algorithms decoded rat brain signals with >95% accuracy, enabling speech-from-thought approach.
- NXNE electrode has been used successfully for 13 years in a locked-in patient with no signal deterioration.
- Technology aims to restore speech in cognitively intact individuals with ALS, locked-in syndrome, and other impairments.
- Co-CEO Dr. Phil Kennedy calls FDA designation a key milestone toward implanting locked-in patients.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-23-005194
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DPLS
- cik: 0000866439
- company_name: DarkPulse, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-08-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866439/000168316823005194/0001683168-23-005194-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866439/000168316823005194/darkpulse_8k.htm

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