ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,672, issued on July 21, was assigned to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (Tainan City, Taiwan).
"Method for treating tinnitus" was invented by Chou-Ching Lin (Tainan City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating tinnitus includes the steps of: determining a tinnitus frequency of a patient; selecting a plurality of therapeutic tones which is a descending Shepard scale that includes the tinnitus frequency of the patient and other frequencies ranging from an octave higher than the tinnitus frequency to an octave lower than the tinnitus frequency; and subjecting the patient to several cycles of a stimulation pulse train...