Richard M Ross

US Patent:

7110821, Sep 19, 2006

Filed:

Jul 10, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/192987

Inventors:

Richard C. Ross - Westlake Village CA, US

Assignee:

Advanced Bionics Corporation - Valencia CA

International Classification:

A61N 1/36

US Classification:

607 57, 607 2, 607 62, 600559

Abstract:

A way of reducing channel interaction is provided in a multichannel neural implant that has the ability to stimulate multiple tissue or nerve sites simultaneously. Channel interaction is minimized through measuring or estimating what the channel interaction is or will likely be, and then using that measured or estimated channel interaction to adjust the intensity of the applied stimuli so that, with the channel interaction, the actual stimuli applied to the tissue or nerves is of a desired intensity level. In one embodiment, the measured or estimated channel interaction is collected or compiled and saved as a channel interaction matrix. The channel interaction matrix is created during a fitting procedure by stimulating one channel at a time while measuring the effects of the stimulation on the neighboring channels. The superposition principal is used, as needed, to determine all the terms of the channel interaction matrix. The channel interaction matrix, once obtained, provides all of the information needed to eliminate or minimize channel interaction.

US Patent:

D532553, Nov 21, 2006

Filed:

Aug 26, 2005

Appl. No.:

29/237053

Inventors:

Richard Ross - Henderson NV, US

International Classification:

2803

US Classification:

D28 55, D24143

US Patent:

D533307, Dec 5, 2006

Filed:

Jun 21, 2004

Appl. No.:

29/207776

Inventors:

Richard Ross - Henderson NV, US

International Classification:

2803

US Classification:

D28 60

US Patent:

D560035, Jan 15, 2008

Filed:

Apr 14, 2005

Appl. No.:

29/227621

Inventors:

Richard Ross - Henderson NV, US

International Classification:

2803

US Classification:

D28 57

US Patent:

D588746, Mar 17, 2009

Filed:

Jul 31, 2008

Appl. No.:

29/322283

Inventors:

Richard Ross - Henderson NV, US

International Classification:

2803

US Classification:

D28 55

US Patent:

7630772, Dec 8, 2009

Filed:

May 4, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/121700

Inventors:

Thomas Patrick Walsh - Valencia CA, US
Carla Mann Woods - Beverly Hills CA, US
Richard C. Ross - Westlake Village CA, US
Rankiri Tissa Karunasiri - Castaic CA, US
Anthony K. Arnold - Valencia CA, US

Assignee:

Advanced Bionics, LLC - Valencia CA

International Classification:

A61N 1/05

US Classification:

607 57, 607 55, 607 56

Abstract:

Apparatus and methods for converting one type of speech processor unit into another type of speech processor unit. A behind the ear (BTE) speech processor is converted to a body-worn device by means of a container that encloses the BTE and allows for device operations and charging. The body-worn device is worn in one embodiment on a belt of a patient.

US Patent:

7901524, Mar 8, 2011

Filed:

Feb 3, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/347505

Inventors:

Geoffrey McKnight - Los Angeles CA, US
Chris Henry - Newbury Park CA, US
Andrew Keefe - Encino CA, US
Richard Ross - Los Angeles CA, US
Guillermo Herrera - Winnetka CA, US

Assignee:

HRL Laboratories, LLC - Malibu CA

International Classification:

C22F 1/00
B64C 5/10
B29C 61/00
B21D 39/08

US Classification:

148563, 72 57, 72700, 244 998, 264230

Abstract:

Apparatus and associated methods for actuating variable stiffness material (VSM) structures and achieving deformation of the structures. The apparatus and the associated methods use internal embedded actuation elements and/or externally attached elements to the VSM structures to achieve the desired deformation. In particular, the actuation can be changed due to the variable stiffness nature of the materials. That is, the invention provides the ability to control the deformation of structures using local stiffness control over subregions of the component in addition to or in substitution for actuation. Furthermore, the invention exploits the variable stiffness properties of the VSM structures to enable new functionalities impossible to realize with conventional constant stiffness materials.

US Patent:

8051018, Nov 1, 2011

Filed:

Dec 4, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/999427

Inventors:

Narayan Srinivasa - Oak Park CA, US
Richard Stewart Ross - Los Angeles CA, US

Assignee:

HRL Laboratories, LLC - Malibu CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/18
G06N 3/12
G06N 7/06

US Classification:

706 13, 706 14, 706 19

Abstract:

The present invention relates to a method for optimizing the design of a shape morphing structure using a genetic algorithm. The method includes defining design parameters of a surface having variable properties into a chromosome. The variable properties of the chromosome are the actual properties of the chromosome. The chromosome has a total of Nmax genes, where each gene corresponds to a variable property element in the surface. Additionally, each gene has n design parameters, wherein the design parameters are incremental changes to the actual properties of the chromosome. A genetic algorithm is employed to optimize the genes until a fitness level for at least one chromosome has been exceeded. When the fitness value for any chromosome in the population is above a predetermined threshold, then the design process is terminated and the final design solution[s] are the design parameters of the chromosome[s] that exceed the predetermined threshold value.