Patents by Inventor Ian C. Forster

Ian C. Forster 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).

  • Patent number: 4267410
    Abstract: A prosthesis and specifically an aural prosthesis which includes an implantable component which is in connection with means which can selectively stimulate neural endings the component being arranged to receive a signal from an extension component which converts a parameter into a transmittable form and which includes a transmitter, the signal from the transmitter received by the implanted component which resolves the signal into groups of two components which can selectively stimulate the neural endings, the stimulation to each ending being independent to stimulation of each other neural ending in both intensity and phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1981
    Assignee: The University of Melbourne
    Inventors: Ian C. Forster, James F. Patrick, Yit C. Tong, Raymond C. Black, Graeme M. Clark