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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2007
Applicants:
David B. Fogel, San Diego, CA (US);
Gary B. Fogel, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
David B. Fogel, San Diego, CA (US);
Gary B. Fogel, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Natural Selection, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for generating optimized tinnitus masks includes, for example, presenting stimuli in succession to a user, receiving the user's rating of the effectiveness of each presented stimulus in reducing tinnitus, selecting a subset of the stimuli to maintain as tinnitus masks, and, generating variant stimuli from the subset of the stimuli that is maintained as tinnitus masks.