Leti joins DARPA-funded consortium to develop implantable device for
  restoring vision
From: Evaluation Engineering - 11/09/2017

Leti announced that a team of its researchers is participating in a US-funded
project to develop a safe, implantable neural interface system to restore
vision by stimulating the visual cortex. Funded by the US Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Neural Engineering System Design
program (NESD) sets out to expand neurotechnology capabilities and provide a
foundation for future treatments of sensory deficits.

Clinatec and its Leti partners will focus on developing a safe, wireless,
implantable system that restores vision through light stimulation of
optogenetically modified neurons in the visual cortex. Leti is tasked with
designing an implantable device, as well as creating hermetic packaging and
radio-frequency links for the implantable system, and subsequently conducting
technical test benches. The Leti implant will enable visual cortex
optical-stimulation patterns, and integrate the underlying control
electronics within a minimally invasive cortical implant.

Partners of the CorticalSight project also include the French companies
Chronocam and Gensight, Stanford University, Inscopix, and the Friedrich
Miescher Institute of Switzerland.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.evaluationengineering.com/leti-joins-darpa-funded-consortium-develop-implantable-device-restoring-vision
http://www.leti-cea.com/cea-tech/leti/english/Pages/What's-On/Press%20release/Leti-joins-darpa-funded-consortium-of-seeing-and-hearing-foundation-to-develop-implantable-device-for-restoring-vision.aspx

Links:
Leti (with video 2:33)
http://www.leti-cea.com/cea-tech/leti/english

Neural Engineering System Design program
https://www.darpa.mil/program/neural-engineering-system-design

Clinate
http://www.clinatec.fr/en

Paris Vision Institute
http://www.institut-vision.org/en

Towards a High-Resolution, Implantable Neural Interface
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-07-10