ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,573, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Personalized vertigo rehabilitation" was invented by Viswam Nathan (Fresno, Calif.), Jilong Kuang (San Jose, Calif.) and Jun Gao (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Personalized vertigo rehabilitation and treatment can include generating a sequence of sounds that are modulated to perceptually emanate from one or more distinct locations in three-dimensional space relative to a user. The sequence can be predetermined to guide head movements of the user in a prescribed manner to mitigate vertigo experienced by the user. The us...