Patents by Inventor Owen Kenny

Owen Kenny 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).

  • Generation of electrical stimuli for application to a cochlea
    Publication number: 20050192646
    Abstract: A method for processing sound signals to generate electrical stimuli for an auditory prosthesis electrode array including a plurality of electrodes, the method including: deriving (10) one or more filtered representations (FIGS. 3 and 4) of an incoming audio signal; and, generating (11) a series of spikes from each filtered signal representation to directly control electrode stimulation. Each spike has a temporal position based upon an instant at which the filtered signal representation crosses a predetermined threshold (ΓΏ;0).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: David Grayden, Anthony Burkitt, Owen Kenny, Janine Clarey, Antonio Paolini, Graeme Clark, Peter Duke