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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2010
Applicants:
Michael Cevette, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Jan Stepanek, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Anna Galea, Stow, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignees:
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education, Rochester, MN (US);
Research Vivonics, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to systems and techniques for stimulating a user. For example, materials and methods for manipulating nystagmus and the related vestibular system with coupling of galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) and visual cueing are provided herein. Use of GVS within the present invention may be applied to simulation, alleviating motion sickness, and directional cueing of a user to a precise target location.