Patents by Inventor Christopher SALTHOUSE
Christopher SALTHOUSE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230166106Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compact hearing aids, components thereof, and support systems therefor, as well as methods of insertion and removal thereof. The compact hearing aids generally include a sensor, such as a microphone, an actuation mass, an energy source for providing power to the compact hearing aid, a processor, and an actuator enclosed in a housing that is designed to be inserted through the tympanic membrane during a minimally-invasive outpatient procedure. In operation, the microphone receives sound waves and converts the sound waves into electrical signals. A processor then modifies the electrical signals and provides the electrical signals to the actuator. The actuator converts the electrical signals into mechanical motion, which actuates the actuation mass to modulate the velocity or the position of the tympanic membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Ron L. MOSES, Michael M. MOORE, Christopher SALTHOUSE
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Patent number: 11571571Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compact hearing aids, components thereof, and support systems therefor, as well as methods of insertion and removal thereof. The compact hearing aids generally include a sensor, such as a microphone, an actuation mass, an energy source for providing power to the compact hearing aid, a processor, and an actuator enclosed in a housing that is designed to be inserted through the tympanic membrane during a minimally-invasive outpatient procedure. In operation, the microphone receives sound waves and converts the sound waves into electrical signals. A processor then modifies the electrical signals and provides the electrical signals to the actuator. The actuator converts the electrical signals into mechanical motion, which actuates the actuation mass to modulate the velocity or the position of the tympanic membrane.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: NANOEAR CORPORATION, INC.Inventors: Ron L. Moses, Michael M. Moore, Christopher Salthouse
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Patent number: 11504533Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compact hearing aids, components thereof, and support systems therefor, as well as methods of insertion and removal thereof. The compact hearing aids generally include a sensor, such as a microphone, an actuation mass, an energy source for providing power to the compact hearing aid, a processor, and an actuator enclosed in a housing that is designed to be inserted through the tympanic membrane during a minimally-invasive outpatient procedure. In operation, the microphone receives sound waves and converts the sound waves into electrical signals. A processor then modifies the electrical signals and provides the electrical signals to the actuator. The actuator converts the electrical signals into mechanical motion, which actuates the actuation mass to modulate the velocity or the position of the tympanic membrane.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: NANOEAR CORPORATION, INC.Inventors: Ron L. Moses, Michael M. Moore, Christopher Salthouse
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Patent number: 11368797Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compact hearing aids, components thereof, and support systems therefor, as well as methods of insertion and removal thereof. The compact hearing aids generally include a sensor, such as a microphone, an actuation mass, an energy source for providing power to the compact hearing aid, a processor, and an actuator enclosed in a housing that is designed to be inserted through the tympanic membrane during a minimally-invasive outpatient procedure. In operation, the microphone receives sound waves and converts the sound waves into electrical signals. A processor then modifies the electrical signals and provides the electrical signals to the actuator. The actuator converts the electrical signals into mechanical motion, which actuates the actuation mass to modulate the velocity or the position of the tympanic membrane.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: NANOEAR CORPORATION, INC.Inventors: Michael M. Moore, Daniel C. Contreras, Kimberly L. Harrison, Michael A. Helmbrecht, Ron L. Moses, Christopher Salthouse
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Publication number: 20210308461Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compact hearing aids, components thereof, and support systems therefor, as well as methods of insertion and removal thereof. The compact hearing aids generally include a sensor, such as a microphone, an actuation mass, an energy source for providing power to the compact hearing aid, a processor, and an actuator enclosed in a housing that is designed to be inserted through the tympanic membrane during a minimally-invasive outpatient procedure. In operation, the microphone receives sound waves and converts the sound waves into electrical signals. A processor then modifies the electrical signals and provides the electrical signals to the actuator. The actuator converts the electrical signals into mechanical motion, which actuates the actuation mass to modulate the velocity or the position of the tympanic membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Ron L. MOSES, Michael M. MOORE, Christopher SALTHOUSE
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Patent number: 11083891Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compact hearing aids, components thereof, and support systems therefor, as well as methods of insertion and removal thereof. The compact hearing aids generally include a sensor, such as a microphone, an actuation mass, an energy source for providing power to the compact hearing aid, a processor, and an actuator enclosed in a housing that is designed to be inserted through the tympanic membrane during a minimally-invasive outpatient procedure. In operation, the microphone receives sound waves and converts the sound waves into electrical signals. A processor then modifies the electrical signals and provides the electrical signals to the actuator. The actuator converts the electrical signals into mechanical motion, which actuates the actuation mass to modulate the velocity or the position of the tympanic membrane.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: NANOEAR CORPORATION, INC.Inventors: Ron L. Moses, Michael M. Moore, Christopher Salthouse
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Publication number: 20210204075Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compact hearing aids, components thereof, and support systems therefor, as well as methods of insertion and removal thereof. The compact hearing aids generally include a sensor, such as a microphone, an actuation mass, an energy source for providing power to the compact hearing aid, a processor, and an actuator enclosed in a housing that is designed to be inserted through the tympanic membrane during a minimally-invasive outpatient procedure. In operation, the microphone receives sound waves and converts the sound waves into electrical signals. A processor then modifies the electrical signals and provides the electrical signals to the actuator. The actuator converts the electrical signals into mechanical motion, which actuates the actuation mass to modulate the velocity or the position of the tympanic membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Michael M. MOORE, Daniel C. CONTRERAS, Kimberly L. HARRISON, Michael A. HELMBRECHT, Ron L. MOSES, Christopher SALTHOUSE
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Publication number: 20200112804Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compact hearing aids, components thereof, and support systems therefor, as well as methods of insertion and removal thereof. The compact hearing aids generally include a sensor, such as a microphone, an actuation mass, an energy source for providing power to the compact hearing aid, a processor, and an actuator enclosed in a housing that is designed to be inserted through the tympanic membrane during a minimally-invasive outpatient procedure. In operation, the microphone receives sound waves and converts the sound waves into electrical signals. A processor then modifies the electrical signals and provides the electrical signals to the actuator. The actuator converts the electrical signals into mechanical motion, which actuates the actuation mass to modulate the velocity or the position of the tympanic membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Ron L. MOSES, Michael M. MOORE, Christopher SALTHOUSE
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Publication number: 20200108249Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compact hearing aids, components thereof, and support systems therefor, as well as methods of insertion and removal thereof. The compact hearing aids generally include a sensor, such as a microphone, an actuation mass, an energy source for providing power to the compact hearing aid, a processor, and an actuator enclosed in a housing that is designed to be inserted through the tympanic membrane during a minimally-invasive outpatient procedure. In operation, the microphone receives sound waves and converts the sound waves into electrical signals. A processor then modifies the electrical signals and provides the electrical signals to the actuator. The actuator converts the electrical signals into mechanical motion, which actuates the actuation mass to modulate the velocity or the position of the tympanic membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Ron L. MOSES, Michael M. MOORE, Christopher SALTHOUSE
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Publication number: 20180276537Abstract: A method and a system for implementing a mathematical algorithm in a neural architecture and transferring that neural architecture to an integrated circuit (IC) chip. The neural architecture has neurons that are capable of converting current to frequency, voltage to frequency, frequency to frequency and time to frequency. The neurons can have multi-sensor inputs (multiple synapses) for either scaling or inhibiting neuron outputs. The neural architecture-to-hardware conversion method is specifically tailored for neural architectures for image processing applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Richard Joseph Wood, Brent Hollosi, Robert D'Angelo, Wes Uy, Geremy Freifeld, Nathan Lowry, Haiyao Huang, Dorothy Carol Poppe, Christopher Salthouse
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Patent number: 10016130Abstract: An improved eye tracker system and methods for detecting eye parameters including eye movement using a pupil center, pupil diameter (i.e., dilation), blink duration, and blink frequency, which may be used to determine a variety of physiological and psychological conditions. The eye tracker system and methods operates at a ten-fold reduction in power usage as compared to current system and methods. Furthermore, eye tracker system and methods allows for a more optimal use in variable light situations such as in the outdoors and does not require active calibration by the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: University of MassachusettsInventors: Deepak Ganesan, Benjamin M. Marlin, Addison Mayberry, Christopher Salthouse
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Publication number: 20170188823Abstract: An improved eye tracker system and methods for detecting eye parameters including eye movement using a pupil center, pupil diameter (i.e., dilation), blink duration, and blink frequency, which may be used to determine a variety of physiological and psychological conditions. The eye tracker system and methods operates at a ten-fold reduction in power usage as compared to current system and methods. Furthermore, eye tracker system and methods allows for a more optimal use in variable light situations such as in the outdoors and does not require active calibration by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2016Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Deepak GANESAN, Benjamin M. MARLIN, Addison MAYBERRY, Christopher SALTHOUSE