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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2023
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, TW;
Chou-Ching Lin, Tainan City, TW;
NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY, Tainan City, TW;
Abstract
A method for treating tinnitus includes the steps of: determining a tinnitus frequency of a patient; selecting a plurality of therapeutic tones which is a descending Shepard scale that includes the tinnitus frequency of the patient and other frequencies ranging from an octave higher than the tinnitus frequency to an octave lower than the tinnitus frequency; and subjecting the patient to several cycles of a stimulation pulse training in which the patient listens to the therapeutic tones played repetitively with a pause between every two cycles, each of the therapeutic tones being played for a time period of 500 milliseconds, one of the therapeutic tones matching the tinnitus frequency of the patient occurring randomly once after stimulus at the beginning of the pause in every four cycles, so as to reduce the patient's perception to tinnitus.