Patents by Inventor Lawrence T. Cohen

Lawrence T. Cohen 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: 7184843
    Abstract: An electrode array for use with a cochlear implant is disclosed, which has electrodes selectively spaced to better target selected regions of the cochlea. In one form, the spacing between adjacent electrodes decreases towards an apical end of the array allowing the electrodes to better target receptors on the inner wall of the scala timpani of the cochlea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: University of Melbourne
    Inventor: Lawrence T. Cohen
  • Patent number: 6068652
    Abstract: There is provided a system for predicting the characteristic frequency of each electrode of an implanted cochlear electrode array from electrode position data contained in an image of the implanted cochlea. There is also provided a system for setting the frequency range to electrode map of a cochlear prosthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Inventors: Lawrence T. Cohen, Jin Xu, Shiang Xu, Colette McKay, Michael Marsh, Andrew T. Mortlock, Peter J. Blamey, Lesley A. Whitford
  • Patent number: 5023783
    Abstract: An evoked response audiometer for sleeping subjects comprising a function generator for supplying to a sleeping patient an auditory signal consisting of a carrier frequency which is periodically modulated at frequencies in excess of 60 Hz, the frequency of modulation being varied in a generally increasing manner for auditory signals of higher frequencies such that the stimulus is frequency specific, a detector for sampling and analyzing brain potentials evoked by said signal, a low-pass filter providing a time window which samples the brain potentials for a predetermined interval to provide sets of fourier analysis samples containing amplitude and phase data in narrow bands centered on the modulation frequency and its second harmonic, a computer for analyzing the Fourier analysis samples to extract means values of the amplitudes and phase angles of the signals, and for extracting from the means values of the phase angles the probabilities that the distributions of the phase angles could have occurred by chang
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: The University of Melbourne
    Inventors: Lawrence T. Cohen, Field W. Rickards