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).

  • Patent number: 11865348
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Guilhem Yvan Vavelin, Thomas Leroux, Gauthier Jodin
  • Publication number: 20230397883
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Adam HERSBACH, Thomas LEROUX, Alberto GOZZI
  • Publication number: 20230368806
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Alberto GOZZI, Thomas LEROUX
  • Publication number: 20230308812
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas LeRoux, James Roy Easter
  • Patent number: 11638102
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Thomas LeRoux, James Roy Easter
  • Publication number: 20230110745
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas LEROUX, Olivier LE CAHAREC
  • Patent number: 11523227
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventor: Thomas Leroux
  • Publication number: 20220072301
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Guy FIERENS, Rishubh VERMA, Antonin RAMBAULT, Tom MEEUSEN, Thomas LEROUX
  • Publication number: 20210351508
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Guilhem Yvan Vavelin, Thomas Leroux, Gauthier Jodin
  • Publication number: 20210099810
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventor: Thomas LEROUX
  • Patent number: 10609170
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: ACK Ventures Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Michelle Harris, Harry Kargman, Dan Jethanamest, Thomas Leroux, Corey Tripp, Peter Delucia, Lin Hsu, Lee Boyle, Dan Liu, George Yi, Rocio Katsanis, Evan Herbst
  • Patent number: 10525265
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Florent Maxime Hubert-Brierre, Thomas Leroux
  • Publication number: 20170353573
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Michelle Harris, Harry Kargman, Dan Jethanamest, Thomas Leroux, Corey Tripp, Peter Delucia, Lin Hsu, Lee Boyle, Dan Liu, George Yi, Rocio Katsanis, Evan Herbst
  • Patent number: 9736261
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: ACK Ventures Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20160165362
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Florent Maxime Hubert-Brierre, Thomas Leroux
  • Publication number: 20150163316
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: ACK Ventures Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 8938724
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: ACK Ventures Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Michelle Harris, Dan Jethanamest, Thomas LeRoux, Corey Tripp, Peter DeLucia, Lin Hsu, Lee Boyle, Dan Liu, George Yi, Rocio Katsanis, Harry Kargman, Evan Herbst
  • Publication number: 20120079369
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: ACK VENTURES HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Michelle HARRIS, Dan JETHANAMEST, Thomas LEROUX, Corey TRIPP, Peter DELUCIA, Lin HSU, Lee BOYLE, Dan LIU, George YI, Rocio KATSANIS, Harry KARGMAN, Evan HERBST
  • Patent number: 8095919
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: ACK Ventures Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Michelle Harris, Dan Jethanamest, Thomas LeRoux, Corey Tripp, Peter DeLucia, Lin Hsu, Lee Boyle, Dan Liu, George Yi, Rocio Katsanis, Harry Kargman, Evan Herbst
  • Publication number: 20100153583
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: ACK VENTURES HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: 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