Utah Array - Bryant McGill

# Utah Array **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Type:** Intracortical electrode array **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Primary source:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] ## Definition Utah Array is a intracortical electrode array identified in the source article's penetrating multielectrode neural recording and stimulation layer. ## Relationships [[wiki/Utah Array|Utah Array]] is related to [[wiki/Blackrock Neurotech|Blackrock Neurotech]] as penetrating multielectrode neural recording and stimulation.  This entry is routed through [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] and [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]], [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]], and [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Key Relationships - **Utah Array** was invented by [[wiki/Richard A. Normann|Richard A. Normann]]. 1989. - [[wiki/Blackrock Neurotech|Blackrock Neurotech]] is associated with **Utah Array**. - **Utah Array** is associated with [[wiki/BrainGate research ecosystem|BrainGate research ecosystem]]. - **Utah Array** is associated with [[wiki/Brown University|Brown University]]. 2002 cursor-control monkey study in company historical timeline. ### Additional Documented Relationships - **Utah Array** is associated with [[wiki/BrainGate|BrainGate]].  ## Source route [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] ## Related Work in the Corpus  - In [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]], **VII.8 — BlackRock Neurotech, Paradromics, and the Continuing Ecosystem** provides the narrative context for **Utah Array**: BlackRock Neurotech is the longest-operating commercial implanted-BCI company, with the Utah Array — a 96- or 100-electrode penetrating silicon array originally developed by Richard Normann at the University of Utah in the 1990s…  ## Research Edges  #### Master relationship graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Neurotechnology Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Neurotechnology Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **Edge 269 — `invented_by` → [[wiki/Richard A. Normann|Richard A. Normann]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `BLACKROCK_STORY`. 1989. - **Edge 272 — `used_in` → [[wiki/BrainGate|BrainGate research ecosystem]]** — **CORPUS**; evidence `CORPUS_ATLAS`, `CORPUS_BCI`. Core implanted research substrate. - **Edge 273 — `used_at` → [[wiki/Brown University|Brown University]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `BLACKROCK_STORY`. 2002 cursor-control monkey study in company historical timeline. #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 271 — [[wiki/Blackrock Neurotech|Blackrock Neurotech]] `manufactures` → this entry** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `BLACKROCK_UTAH`. Commercial research platform.   #### Consciousness mapping and transfer graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] · [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **Edge 269 — `invented_by` → [[wiki/Richard A. Normann|Richard A. Normann]]** — **PRIOR_NEUROTECH_VERIFIED**; evidence `BLACKROCK_STORY`. 1989. - **Edge 272 — `used_in` → [[wiki/BrainGate research ecosystem|BrainGate research ecosystem]]** — **PRIOR_NEUROTECH_CORPUS**; evidence `CORPUS_ATLAS`, `CORPUS_BCI`. Core implanted research substrate. - **Edge 273 — `used_at` → [[wiki/Brown University|Brown University]]** — **PRIOR_NEUROTECH_VERIFIED**; evidence `BLACKROCK_STORY`. 2002 cursor-control monkey study in company historical timeline. #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 271 — [[wiki/Blackrock Neurotech|Blackrock Neurotech]] `manufactures` → this entry** — **PRIOR_NEUROTECH_VERIFIED**; evidence `BLACKROCK_UTAH`. Commercial research platform.  ## Research Inferences  These entries translate the forward-looking register in [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]] into ordinary wiki prose. The tier labels apply to the inference, not automatically to every factual anchor inside it. The interpretive frame comes from [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]. Collection route: [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **INF-0003 — Established.** The Utah Array's multi-decade chronic dwell in human cortex, including a single participant past nine years, is the only long-duration dataset the field owns. Every claim about lifetime continuity hardware is currently underwritten by that one electrode geometry, which makes array longevity the most load-carrying unresolved variable in the stack.