DR. ERIK VIIRRE, M.D.
Neurology at Arbor Dr, San Diego, CA

2009012, May 14, 2009

Oct 30, 2008

12/290640

F. Richard Moore - San Diego CA, US
Erik Viirre - San Diego CA, US

A61M 21/00, G06F 17/00

600 28, 700 94

A portable player for facilitating implementation of customized sound therapy to a patient. The PSP is designed to producing sounds at fairly low listening levels, wherein in order for effective habituation to occur. The PSP generates frequencies covering the entire audible range (about 20-20,000 Hz) at low distortion. The PSP is operatively coupled to a sound matching station (SMS) via a suitable interface (e.g., a USB interface), is connected, wired or wirelessly, to audio output transducers (e.g., headphones) for both the patient and the CST operator during the matching session, then detached for patient's use during habituation therapy. The PSP records automatically the patient's usage, by building a record of the date and time when the PSP was turned on and off, and the sound volume used at that time. This information can be downloaded at the next visit onto the SMS and reviewed and analyzed for further treatments.

2009009, Apr 16, 2009

Oct 1, 2008

12/286895

Jaime A. Pineda - San Diego CA, US
Erik Viirre - San Diego CA, US

A61B 5/04

600545

A system and method for adaptive therapeutic intervention to effect real-time changes in the behavioral profile of an individual to facilitate the effectiveness of combined bioelectric sensing and biosensory based therapy for specific disorders. The system and method induces a temporary physiological state-of-mind (e.g., increased relaxation) to effect persistent changes to the cognitive-emotive profile of the individual (e.g., reduce internal tinnitus). The sense- and mental state-awareness responses, integrated into a two-way (i.e., bi-directional) feedback system using a dynamic interface with intelligently controlled thresholds. The invention takes into account details of multi-variate and nonlinear dynamics and database templates to more accurately compute the user's “state-of-mind.” It then utilizes this “state-of-mind” to drive therapeutic and non-therapeutic stimulus intervention. By way of a “combinatorial stimulation sequence” approach that uses customized sounds, the present invention creates a fine-tuned and well-controlled process. The significance of this interactivity is a prolonged change in the individual's cognitive-emotive profile.

2009001, Jan 15, 2009

Jun 25, 2008

12/215385

Anthony T. Materna - Los Angeles CA, US
Erik Viirre - San Diego CA, US
Jaime A. Pineda - San Diego CA, US
F. Richard Moore - San Diego CA, US

A61B 5/12, A61F 11/00

600559

A system for providing therapy for tinnitus. An integrated system is developed for implementation of customized sound therapy (CST). The CST System is used by a qualified person to test and treat a patient. One embodiment of the present invention comprises a system that includes: (1) a Sound Matching Station (SMS), which is a dedicated electronic device having a processing system including a CST application, an acoustic compiler for generating CST sounds, a graphical user interface user (GUI), an output for high-quality digital audio file output; (2) an audio device for playback of CST sounds to the patient. In one embodiment, the audio device includes a Portable Sound Player (PSP). The PSP using a stereophonic playback converts the digital audio file into CST sounds, which can be heard through a pair of high fidelity earphones provided to the patient and one for the tester.

2005004, Feb 24, 2005

Feb 5, 2002

10/276018

Erik Viirre - San Diego CA, US
Jaime Pineda - San Diego CA, US
F. Richard Moore - San Diego CA, US

A61B005/04, A61N001/08, A61B005/00

600545000, 600544000, 600559000, 607056000, 607055000

An automated method for treating tinnitus by habituation through use of neurological feedback, comprising the steps of connecting a subject through a set of attached headphones to an electronic sound player that is connected to a PC workstation presenting sound examples by software to the subject who can refine them by manipulating a series of controllers on the player, making an electronic recording of the sound in a digital music format, storing the recording in the computer, transferring a copy of the electronic sound file to the subject's electronic music player, generating an EEC signature of the subject's brain activity in response to the presented sound, sound using the customized sound to stimulate the auditory system while the brain activity is recorded, wherein the computer continuously monitors for the feedback signatures and drives the sound stimuli appropriately.

7981047, Jul 19, 2011

Jul 28, 2009

12/510538

Erik Viirre - San Diego CA, US
Jaime A. Pineda - San Diego CA, US
John D. Hestenes - Blackhawk CA, US
Andrey Vankov - San Diego CA, US

The Regents of the University of California - Oakland CA

A61B 5/00, A61B 5/04

600559, 600544, 600545

An automated method for treating tinnitus by habituation through use of neurological feedback, comprising the steps of connecting a subject through a set of attached headphones to an electronic sound player that is connected to a PC workstation presenting sound examples by software to the subject who can refine them by manipulating a series of controllers on the player, making an electronic recording of the sound in a digital music format, storing the recording in the computer, transferring a copy of the electronic sound file to the subject's electronic music player, generating an EEC signature of the subject's brain activity in response to the presented sound, sound using the customized sound to stimulate the auditory system while the brain activity is recorded, wherein the computer continuously monitors for the feedback signatures and drives the sound stimuli appropriately.

7572234, Aug 11, 2009

Nov 30, 2005

11/292266

Erik Viirre - San Diego CA, US
Jaime A. Pineda - San Diego CA, US
John D. Hestenes - Blackhawk CA, US
Andrey Vankov - San Diego CA, US

The Regents of the University of California - Oakland CA

A61B 5/00, A61B 5/04

600559, 600300, 600544

An automated method for treating tinnitus by habituation through use of neurological feedback, comprising the steps of connecting a subject through a set of attached headphones to an electronic sound player that is connected to a PC workstation presenting sound examples by software to the subject who can refine them by manipulating a series of controllers on the player, making an electronic recording of the sound in a digital music format, storing the recording in the computer, transferring a copy of the electronic sound file to the subject's electronic music player, generating an EEC signature of the subject's brain activity in response to the presented sound, sound using the customized sound to stimulate the auditory system while the brain activity is recorded, wherein the computer continuously monitors for the feedback signatures and drives the sound stimuli appropriately.

7933645, Apr 26, 2011

Mar 30, 2006

11/398737

Chris Strychacz - San Diego CA, US
Erik Viirre - San Diego CA, US

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC

A61B 5/04

600544, 600545

The invention relates to a method of determining early onset of motion sickness by brain imaging. The method discloses an objective means of determining the onset of motion sickness by evaluating a specific region of the brain. The method can also be utilized in evaluating the predisposition toward motion sickness in workers in occupations prone to motion sickness.