Patents by Inventor Thomas LeRoux
Thomas LeRoux 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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Patent number: 11865348Abstract: Embodiments presented herein are generally directed to techniques that provide a medical device component with the ability to communicate in both the near-field and far-field via a single antenna arrangement. More specifically, a medical device component includes an electronics circuit, a coil driver, an antenna arrangement, and an isolation circuit. The isolation circuit operates to extract far-field signals received at the antenna arrangement and provide these signals to the electronics circuit. The electronics circuit is protected from near-field signals received at the antenna arrangement via the isolation circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Guilhem Yvan Vavelin, Thomas Leroux, Gauthier Jodin
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Publication number: 20230397883Abstract: An implantable medical device is configured to detect signals with first and second implantable sensors configured to be implanted in a recipient. The implantable medical device is configured to adaptively equalize a response of the first implantable sensor to a response of a similar external sensor, wherein adaption control of the equalization is based on a coherence between the signals detected by first implantable sensor and the signals detected by the external microphone indicating the presence of acoustic signals. In addition, the implantable medical device is configured to adaptively filter vibration signals, including body noises, from the implantable sound signals, wherein adaption control of the filter is based on a coherence between the signals detected by first implantable sensor and the signals detected by the second implantable sensor indicating the presence of vibration.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Adam HERSBACH, Thomas LEROUX, Alberto GOZZI
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Publication number: 20230368806Abstract: A system for reducing noise in a drive signal of a hearing device, including a microphone operative to receive sound and generate a microphone output signal and an adaptive filter apparatus that receives a signal from a transducer separate from the microphone and outputs a filtered signal, wherein the system subtracts the outputted filtered signal from a signal based on the microphone output signal to cancel noise and outputs the resulting signal, and the system further processes the resulting signal to obtain a further processed resulting signal to remove and/or eliminate residual feedback present in the resulting signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Alberto GOZZI, Thomas LEROUX
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Publication number: 20230308812Abstract: An apparatus includes signal processing circuitry configured to generate processed data signals in response at least in part to transducer signals from at least one acoustic transducer and filtering signals, and to transmit the processed data signals via at least one communication channel to an actuating assembly of an auditory prosthesis. The apparatus further includes circuitry configured to monitor one or more of the signal processing circuitry, the processed data signals, and the at least one communication channel, and to generate filtering control signals in response at least in part thereto. The apparatus further includes filtering circuitry configured to generate the filtering signals in response at least in part to the processed data signals and the filtering control signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Thomas LeRoux, James Roy Easter
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Patent number: 11638102Abstract: An apparatus includes signal processing circuitry configured to generate processed data signals in response at least in part to transducer signals from at least one acoustic transducer and filtering signals, and to transmit the processed data signals via at least one communication channel to an actuating assembly of an auditory prosthesis. The apparatus further includes circuitry configured to monitor one or more of the signal processing circuitry, the processed data signals, and the at least one communication channel, and to generate filtering control signals in response at least in part thereto. The apparatus further includes filtering circuitry configured to generate the filtering signals in response at least in part to the processed data signals and the filtering control signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Thomas LeRoux, James Roy Easter
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Publication number: 20230110745Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for providing tinnitus relief to recipients via an implantable arrangement. In accordance with embodiments presented herein, an implantable medical device, such as implantable tinnitus therapy device, auditory/hearing prosthesis, etc., comprises one or more implantable sensors configured to be implanted in a recipient. The one or more implantable sensors are configured to detect body noises of the recipient. The implantable medical device is configured to classify/categorize the one or more body noises and set, select, or otherwise determine a tinnitus therapy for the recipient based on the classification of the one or more body noises.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Thomas LEROUX, Olivier LE CAHAREC
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Patent number: 11523227Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one housing configured to be implanted within a body of a recipient, at least one acoustic transducer positioned on or within the at least one housing, at least one motion sensor positioned on or within the at least one housing, gain circuitry configured to apply a gain to transducer output signals from the at least one acoustic transducer, at least one storage device, and at least one processor operatively coupled to the at least one acoustic transducer, the at least one motion sensor, the gain circuitry, and the at least one storage device. The at least one processor is configured to adjust the gain circuitry in response to a reference acoustic sensitivity function, a reference vibration response function, the transducer output signals, and sensor output signals from the at least one motion sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventor: Thomas Leroux
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Publication number: 20220072301Abstract: An apparatus, including an implantable portion of a hearing prosthesis, wherein the apparatus is configured to at least partially cancel a signal in the implantable portion, the signal resulting from an external magnetic field generated external to a recipient of the hearing prosthesis. In an exemplary embodiment, the signal is a signal generated by the external magnetic field interacting with an electrical lead extending between a stimulation output device of the prosthesis and a stimulator and/or receiver of the implantable portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Guy FIERENS, Rishubh VERMA, Antonin RAMBAULT, Tom MEEUSEN, Thomas LEROUX
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Publication number: 20210351508Abstract: Embodiments presented herein are generally directed to techniques that provide a medical device component with the ability to communicate in both the near-field and far-field via a single antenna arrangement. More specifically, a medical device component includes an electronics circuit, a coil driver, an antenna arrangement, and an isolation circuit. The isolation circuit operates to extract far-field signals received at the antenna arrangement and provide these signals to the electronics circuit. The electronics circuit is protected from near-field signals received at the antenna arrangement via the isolation circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Guilhem Yvan Vavelin, Thomas Leroux, Gauthier Jodin
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Publication number: 20210099810Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one housing configured to be implanted within a body of a recipient, at least one acoustic transducer positioned on or within the at least one housing, at least one motion sensor positioned on or within the at least one housing, gain circuitry configured to apply a gain to transducer output signals from the at least one acoustic transducer, at least one storage device, and at least one processor operatively coupled to the at least one acoustic transducer, the at least one motion sensor, the gain circuitry, and the at least one storage device. The at least one processor is configured to adjust the gain circuitry in response to a reference acoustic sensitivity function, a reference vibration response function, the transducer output signals, and sensor output signals from the at least one motion sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventor: Thomas LEROUX
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Patent number: 10609170Abstract: The illustrative embodiment of the present invention provides a platform that enables a content developer to distribute uniform content to multiple types of requesting mobile devices. By authoring content in a generic markup language and using the technologies included in the Mobile Content Framework (MCF), the content developer is able to provide content to multiple types devices without providing different versions of the content. The content may be authored originally in the generic markup language or translated from other languages into the generic markup language by the MCF. The MCF exploits the capabilities and accommodates the limitations of different types of wireless devices by converting generic markup language content to device-specific content. The MCF interacts with device registries holding records of the device attributes in order to provide the device-specific content. The MCF handles these issues for current mobile devices while also being extensible for future mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: ACK Ventures Holdings, LLCInventors: Michelle Harris, Harry Kargman, Dan Jethanamest, Thomas Leroux, Corey Tripp, Peter Delucia, Lin Hsu, Lee Boyle, Dan Liu, George Yi, Rocio Katsanis, Evan Herbst
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Patent number: 10525265Abstract: A microphone system including a first sensor configured to output a first signal based on an ambient sound relative to a recipient of the system, a second sensor configured to output a second signal corresponding to a noise reference, and first signal processing circuitry configured to process the first signal based on the second signal and output a third signal based on the processed first signal, wherein the system is configured to limit a gain of the third signal based on the presence of impulsive energy in the second signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Florent Maxime Hubert-Brierre, Thomas Leroux
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Publication number: 20170353573Abstract: The illustrative embodiment of the present invention provides a platform that enables a content developer to distribute uniform content to multiple types of requesting mobile devices. By authoring content in a generic markup language and using the technologies included in the Mobile Content Framework (MCF), the content developer is able to provide content to multiple types devices without providing different versions of the content. The content may be authored originally in the generic markup language or translated from other languages into the generic markup language by the MCF. The MCF exploits the capabilities and accommodates the limitations of different types of wireless devices by converting generic markup language content to device-specific content. The MCF interacts with device registries holding records of the device attributes in order to provide the device-specific content. The MCF handles these issues for current mobile devices while also being extensible for future mobile devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Michelle Harris, Harry Kargman, Dan Jethanamest, Thomas Leroux, Corey Tripp, Peter Delucia, Lin Hsu, Lee Boyle, Dan Liu, George Yi, Rocio Katsanis, Evan Herbst
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Patent number: 9736261Abstract: The illustrative embodiment of the present invention provides a platform that enables a content developer to distribute uniform content to multiple types of requesting mobile devices. By authoring content in a generic markup language and using the technologies included in the Mobile Content Framework (MCF), the content developer is able to provide content to multiple types devices without providing different versions of the content. The content may be authored originally in the generic markup language or translated from other languages into the generic markup language by the MCF. The MCF exploits the capabilities and accommodates the limitations of different types of wireless devices by converting generic markup language content to device-specific content. The MCF interacts with device registries holding records of the device attributes in order to provide the device-specific content. The MCF handles these issues for current mobile devices while also being extensible for future mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: ACK Ventures Holdings, LLCInventors: Michelle Harris, Harry B. Kargman, Dan Jethanamest, Thomas Leroux, Corey Tripp, Peter DeLucia, Lin Hsu, Lee Boyle, Dan Liu, George Yi, Rocio Katsanis, Evan Herbst
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Publication number: 20160165362Abstract: A microphone system including a first sensor configured to output a first signal based on an ambient sound relative to a recipient of the system, a second sensor configured to output a second signal corresponding to a noise reference, and first signal processing circuitry configured to process the first signal based on the second signal and output a third signal based on the processed first signal, wherein the system is configured to limit a gain of the third signal based on the presence of impulsive energy in the second signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2015Publication date: June 9, 2016Inventors: Florent Maxime Hubert-Brierre, Thomas Leroux
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Publication number: 20150163316Abstract: The illustrative embodiment of the present invention provides a platform that enables a content developer to distribute uniform content to multiple types of requesting mobile devices. By authoring content in a generic markup language and using the technologies included in the Mobile Content Framework (MCF), the content developer is able to provide content to multiple types devices without providing different versions of the content. The content may be authored originally in the generic markup language or translated from other languages into the generic markup language by the MCF. The MCF exploits the capabilities and accommodates the limitations of different types of wireless devices by converting generic markup language content to device-specific content. The MCF interacts with device registries holding records of the device attributes in order to provide the device-specific content. The MCF handles these issues for current mobile devices while also being extensible for future mobile devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2015Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: ACK Ventures Holdings, LLCInventors: Michelle HARRIS, Harry B. KARGMAN, Dan JETHANAMEST, Thomas LEROUX, Corey TRIPP, Peter DELUCIA, Lin HSU, Lee BOYLE, Dan LIU, George YI, Rocio KATSANIS, Evan HERBST
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Patent number: 8938724Abstract: The illustrative embodiment of the present invention provides a platform that enables a content developer to distribute uniform content to multiple types of requesting mobile devices. By authoring content in a generic markup language and using the technologies included in the Mobile Content Framework (MCF), the content developer is able to provide content to multiple types devices without providing different versions of the content. The content may be authored originally in the generic markup language or translated from other languages into the generic markup language by the MCF. The MCF exploits the capabilities and accommodates the limitations of different types of wireless devices by converting generic markup language content to device-specific content. The MCF interacts with device registries holding records of the device attributes in order to provide the device-specific content. The MCF handles these issues for current mobile devices while also being extensible for future mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2011Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: ACK Ventures Holdings, LLCInventors: Michelle Harris, Dan Jethanamest, Thomas LeRoux, Corey Tripp, Peter DeLucia, Lin Hsu, Lee Boyle, Dan Liu, George Yi, Rocio Katsanis, Harry Kargman, Evan Herbst
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Publication number: 20120079369Abstract: The illustrative embodiment of the present invention provides a platform that enables a content developer to distribute uniform content to multiple types of requesting mobile devices. By authoring content in a generic markup language and using the technologies included in the Mobile Content Framework (MCF), the content developer is able to provide content to multiple types devices without providing different versions of the content. The content may be authored originally in the generic markup language or translated from other languages into the generic markup language by the MCF. The MCF exploits the capabilities and accommodates the limitations of different types of wireless devices by converting generic markup language content to device-specific content. The MCF interacts with device registries holding records of the device attributes in order to provide the device-specific content. The MCF handles these issues for current mobile devices while also being extensible for future mobile devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: ACK VENTURES HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Michelle HARRIS, Dan JETHANAMEST, Thomas LEROUX, Corey TRIPP, Peter DELUCIA, Lin HSU, Lee BOYLE, Dan LIU, George YI, Rocio KATSANIS, Harry KARGMAN, Evan HERBST
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Patent number: 8095919Abstract: The illustrative embodiment of the present invention provides a platform that enables a content developer to distribute uniform content to multiple types of requesting mobile devices. By authoring content in a generic markup language and using the technologies included in the Mobile Content Framework (MCF), the content developer is able to provide content to multiple types devices without providing different versions of the content. The content may be authored originally in the generic markup language or translated from other languages into the generic markup language by the MCF. The MCF exploits the capabilities and accommodates the limitations of different types of wireless devices by converting generic markup language content to device-specific content. The MCF interacts with device registries holding records of the device attributes in order to provide the device-specific content. The MCF handles these issues for current mobile devices while also being extensible for future mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: ACK Ventures Holdings, LLCInventors: Michelle Harris, Dan Jethanamest, Thomas LeRoux, Corey Tripp, Peter DeLucia, Lin Hsu, Lee Boyle, Dan Liu, George Yi, Rocio Katsanis, Harry Kargman, Evan Herbst
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Publication number: 20100153583Abstract: The illustrative embodiment of the present invention provides a platform that enables a content developer to distribute uniform content to multiple types of requesting mobile devices. By authoring content in a generic markup language and using the technologies included in the Mobile Content Framework (MCF), the content developer is able to provide content to multiple types devices without providing different versions of the content. The content may be authored originally in the generic markup language or translated from other languages into the generic markup language by the MCF. The MCF exploits the capabilities and accommodates the limitations of different types of wireless devices by converting generic markup language content to device-specific content. The MCF interacts with device registries holding records of the device attributes in order to provide the device-specific content. The MCF handles these issues for current mobile devices while also being extensible for future mobile devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: ACK VENTURES HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Michelle Harris, Dan Jethanamest, Thomas LeRoux, Corey Tripp, Peter DeLucia, Lin Hsu, Lee Boyle, Dan Liu, George Yi, Rocio Katsanis, Harry B. Kargman, Evan Herbst